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I am getting the following error message while trying to install nodejs:

Err http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/main libc-ares2 amd64 1.9.1-3  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]    
Err http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ quantal/universe nodejs amd64 0.6.19~dfsg1-5ubuntu1 404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/c-ares/libc-ares2_1.9.1-3_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]
Failed to fetch http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/nodejs/nodejs_0.6.19~dfsg1-5ubuntu1_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.13 80]

I had used the command:

sudo apt-get install nodejs

Has anybody faced this problem before ?

daydreamer614
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  • Did you search first? You need to use a ppa - see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7214474/how-to-keep-up-with-the-latest-versions-of-nodejs-in-ubuntu-ppa-compiling – Simon H Jul 21 '14 at 14:54
  • that server's either got an incomplete mirror of the ubuntu archives, or is no longer an archive at all, or is misconfigured. – Marc B Jul 21 '14 at 14:54
  • all else fails, building from source is really easy. download tarball, extract, cd into, `./config`, `make`, `sudo make install` – Joseph Dailey Jul 21 '14 at 15:49

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You should use this PPA to keep node up-to-date with the latest stable version. The Ubuntu/Debian repositories have node also, but they are not regularly updated and sometimes contain very outdated versions.

As @MarcB pointed out, the particular mirror you are currently using does not support quantal.

mscdex
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curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash

from their documentation https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installing-Node.js-via-package-manager#debian-and-ubuntu-based-linux-distributions

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try out the following commands with the given key 


sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 68576280
sudo apt-add-repository "deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_7.x $(lsb_release -sc) main"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs

The above mention code is for getting NodeJs version 7

for different versions you can check out the github page of nodesource (who maintains PPAs of nodejs) https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#debinstall

charle819
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