[Bug?]: corepack enable installation method not working on Ubuntu 22.10

[JonathanLindsey]

Self-service

• I'd be willing to implement a fix

Describe the bug

On Ubuntu 22.10 (latest non-LTS) with node v18.7.0 yarn cannot be installed as documented with corepack enable. Instead I get corepack: command not found.

I am able to install corepack but it also requires sudo which is not documented: sudo npm i -g corepack. Is sudo not in the documentation in order to be OS agnostic?

To reproduce

1. Start with a fresh Ubuntu 22.10 installation.
2. sudo apt install npm to install nodejs v18.7.0.
3. corepack enable

Environment

After successfully installing yarn with sudo npm i -g corepack:

System:
  OS: Linux 5.19 Ubuntu 22.10 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu)
  CPU: (1) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-8265U CPU @ 1.60GHz
Binaries:
  Node: 18.7.0 - /tmp/xfs-433908c4/node
  Yarn: 1.22.19 - /tmp/xfs-433908c4/yarn
  npm: 8.18.0 - /usr/bin/npm

This is a Virtual Box VM running under Pop!_OS 22.04 LTS

Additional context

Is this a documentation issue, yarn issue or something specific with Ubuntu?

[RDIL]

You have installed Node through a system package manager, which doesn’t include corepack. You need to either install corepack first (npm i -g corepack) or use a different method of installing Node, such as nvm.

This is just a case of the apt package not shipping everything that the typical Node.js distributions include.

As for requiring sudo, it’s just a permission issue. Typically, you should have control over the global package store.