Installing Node.js in Azure VM

Question

I got myself an Azure VM (Standard B1s) so that I can deploy my node.js application. I ran sudo apt update to check for updates before I tried to install node. It gave me the following errors:

Hit:1 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:2 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease
Hit:3 http://azure.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease
Get:4 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/azure-cli wheezy InRelease [3187 B]
Hit:5 https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode stable InRelease
Get:6 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [88.7 kB]
Ign:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate-dev/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Ign:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate-dev/trusty-mate/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Err:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate-dev/ppa/ubuntu bionic Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.85 80]
Err:10 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate-dev/trusty-mate/ubuntu bionic Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.95.85 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate-dev/ppa/ubuntu bionic Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.
E: The repository 'http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mate-dev/trusty-mate/ubuntu bionic Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

When I tried to install node using their nodesource repo using curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x | sudo -E bash -, it gave me the same errors.

How can I install node.js in an azure VM?

Answer 1

@dheerajpv

Based on the 404 error on IP address, it is error from PPA. Mostly unavailable packages for ypur specific Ubuntu version.
To fix the issue, try removing PPA from the pkg source.

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:ubuntu-mate-dev/ppa  
sudo apt update  

Hope this helps.

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Answer 2

Suggested fix does not address the real issue. The real issue is network connectivity.

azureuser@MeanStack:~$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo -E bash -

The command above does not work on a vm where installing mongodb works fine.

Somehow traffic to deb.nodesource.com is discarded. A similar problem seem to occur with ppa.launchpad.net in the OP example - but the problem is not having the repo configured, but that the network traffic is discarded.