This is not true. Installing Node on Ubuntu with a package manager using the official instructions [0] installs both Node and npm. If you are using an unoffici

This is not true. Installing Node on Ubuntu with a package manager using the official instructions [0] installs both Node and npm. If you are using an unofficial repository, and that maintainer did not include npm in his Node package, then yes I would consider that a problem. > to install the latter it wants to get about a hundred of dependencies Yeah, as software engineers, let's discourage code reuse, shall we? Node and npm are not trivial pieces of software. I expect it to have lots of dependencies. This is hardly surprising. [0] https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager#debian-and-ub...