How to install the pnpm package manager in Ubuntu?

Pnpm (performant npm) is a similar package manager to the npm and yarn. NPM, PNPM and yarn package managers work for nodejs. PNPM is a fast and secure package manager for nodejs. You can easily install PNPM in your ubuntu.

There are three ways to install PNPM in ubuntu.

Steps

Curl
Wget
NPM

Curl

Install PNPM with the curl command. Firstly download locally, and after the curl command runs install.sh bash file runs automatically.

curl -fsSL https://get.pnpm.io/install.sh | sh -

Command output

curl -fsSL https://get.pnpm.io/install.sh | sh -
==> Extracting pnpm binaries 7.0.0
Copying pnpm CLI from /tmp/tmp.rmncvtCcXR/pnpm to /home/rajdeepsingh/.local/share/pnpm/pnpm
Updated /home/rajdeepsingh/.bashrc
Setup complete. Open a new terminal to start using pnpm.

Wget

It does not have the curl command installed in your system, and you use the wget command in ubuntu. Wget command works similar to the curl command.

wget -qO- https://get.pnpm.io/install.sh | sh -

curl and Wget command install package from npm repository with a bash script.

NPM

NPM, you can install pnpm with npm and yarn using the following command.

npm install -g pnpm
 
or
 
yarn global add pnpm

How to update PNPM?

To update the pnpm with a one command.

pnpm add -g pnpm

Conclusion

PNPM is the next future of the node package manager. Slowly pnpm is growing among developers in the near day. I think lots of people start using pnpm in the project.

The second thing I hope developers, teachers, writers and YouTubers raise awareness about is pnpm. So lots of developers use pnpm daily in life.

I hope you can install pnpm in your ubuntu without any problem. If you face any issues, let me know in the comment section.