How to install NVM, Node and Microsoft Visual Studio in 3 minutes or less.

Happy Coding to you. This is a short video to show how to install NVM, NodeJS
and Visual Studio Code on Ubuntu.

Bring apt up to date
⟩sudo apt update

If dpkg: error: dpkg fronend lock ...
We want to find the process that opened 'lock-frontend: lsof - list open files
⟩sudo lsof /var/lib/dpkg/lock-frontend

Kill the offending process
⟩sudo kill -9 PID

Install curl
⟩sudo apt install curl

Install nvm

Update the environment for the terminal
⟩source ~/.profile

Install the latest version of node
⟩nvm install --lts

Install visual studio code
⟩sudo snap install --classic code

Click on ‘Activities’, right click ‘add to favorites’

Click on the app

List all versions of node
⟩nvm ls-remote

Install a specific version of node
⟩nvm use ⟨version⟩