npm install on Azure

Question

hi,
Just created Standard B1ls (1 vcpus, 0.5 GiB memory). VM using Ubuntu LTS Ubuntu 20.04 .

uname -a
Linux tutorialVM 5.8.0-1033-azure #35~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 19 06:46:04 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Installed Nodejs
node -v
v10.19.0

However, when I want to install "npm" its asking for 645 MB additional space
sudo apt install npm

python2-minimal python2.7 python2.7-minimal x11-common x11-utils x11-xserver-utils xdg-utils
0 upgraded, 430 newly installed, 0 to remove and 14 not upgraded.
Need to get 86.6 MB of archives.
After this operation, 645 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.

Any idea how to not install all that new packages just for npm ?

All my free tier resources will be consumed by this npm 645 MB.

Answer 1

@Abhay

It is understandable on why you are not able to install the packages by changing your VM type (you are confined to free tier usage).

However, as these are the dependency packages that are needed, can you try to install from the source code and see if that helps.

Please check this.

Please 'Accept as answer' if it helped, so that it can help others in the community looking for help on similar topics.