I installed nvm in Ubuntu 20.04. Then using nvm I installed node and npm. The general task is to use hardhat in my Solidity project. I created npm project and installed hardhat:

npm init
npm install --save-dev hardhat

Then I created a simple hardhat project: npx hardhat.

But now, I can't use any tasks from hardhat(like npx hardhat accounts) due to this error I use the lts version of node 16.14.2, here is a screen from the command nvm ls.

I thought that I installed node but not node.js(actually I still don't fully understand the difference between node and node.js), so I installed node.js using sudo apt install nodejs but this does not help.

So, I don't know what to do, because I have LTS version of node, but seems like hardhat can see this.

Also, I wanted to use hardhat plugin in remix IDE but there is no such plugin

UPD: I think, I found the problem. But I even don't have 17.7.2 version. This is the all versions that I have. So now, I think, I have to somehow say to hardhat my node version

CodePudding user response：

I am getting a similar issue here. I was running 17.9 but just downgraded by running nvm install 16.0.0 and this seems to have worked

CodePudding user response：

So, I found answer, it is really stupid from my side. I working in the directory ~/SolidityProjects/testProject. But in ~/ I have directory node_modules which I created(I don't know when, I think I made it at random). So this directory somehow covered node_modules from ~/SolidityProjects/testProject. So I deleted it from ~/ and it start working.