works better

installnodejs.txt

@@ -1,2 +1,7 @@
-curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_lts.x | sudo -E bash -
-sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
+sudo apt-get install curl  
+sudo apt-get remove nodejs npm ## remove existing nodejs and npm packages
+# Using Ubuntu
+curl -fsSL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo -E bash -
+curl -sL https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | gpg --dearmor | sudo tee /usr/share/keyrings/yarnkey.gpg >/dev/null
+echo "deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/yarnkey.gpg] https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list
+sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn