BOWER-install

 

https://www.osetc.com/en/how-to-install-bower-on-ubuntu-16-04-18-04-linux.html

Installing Nodejs And Npm

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As Bower need to use Node.js and npm tools to manage all applications, you need to install both two packages on your Ubuntu system. Type the following command to install it:

$ sudo apt install npm
$ sudo apt install nodejs

Outputs:

devops@devops-osetc:~$ sudo apt install npm
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
libssl-doc
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
The following additional packages will be installed:
gyp javascript-common libc-ares2 libhttp-parser2.7.1 libjs-async
......
Need to get 9,782 kB/10.0 MB of archives.
After this operation, 42.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
Get:1 http://mirrors.aliyun.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 gyp all 0.1+20150913git1f374df9-1ubuntu1 [265 kB]
Get:2 http://mirrors.aliyun.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 libjs-async all 0.8.0-3 [25.4 kB]
Get:3 http://mirrors.aliyun.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 libjs-node-uuid all 1.4.7-5 [11.5 kB]
......
Setting up node-form-data (0.1.0-1) ...
Setting up node-request (2.26.1-1) ...
Setting up node-minimatch (3.0.4-3) ...
Setting up node-normalize-package-data (2.3.5-2) ...
Setting up node-ansi-color-table (1.0.0-1) ...
Setting up node-npmlog (0.0.4-1) ...
Setting up node-glob (7.1.2-4) ...
Setting up node-rimraf (2.6.2-1) ...
Setting up node-read-package-json (1.2.4-1) ...
Setting up node-fstream (1.0.10-1) ...
Setting up node-fstream-ignore (0.0.6-2) ...
Setting up node-tar (2.2.1-1) ...
Setting up node-gyp (3.6.2-1ubuntu1) ...
Setting up npm (3.5.2-0ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.27-3ubuntu1) ...
devops@devops-osetc:~$

devops@devops-osetc:~$ sudo apt install nodejs
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
nodejs is already the newest version (8.10.0~dfsg-2ubuntu0.4).
nodejs set to manually installed.
The following package was automatically installed and is no longer required:
libssl-doc
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove it.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Then you need to check if you have successfully installed NPM and node.js tools on your Ubuntu system with the following command:

$ npm --version

or

$ node --version

Outputs:

devops@devops-osetc:~$ npm --version
3.5.2
devops@devops-osetc:~$ node --version
v8.10.0

Installing Bower Using NPM

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After installed NPM in the above step, you can try to install Bower with NPM tool on your system, just use the following command to install bower:

$ sudo npm install -g bower

After the installation process is completed, you need to check if the bower has installed successfully on your system with the following command:

$ bower --version

Outputs:

devops@devops-osetc:~$ node --version
1.8.2