It seems like you are using v.18.0.0 which was the latest but not well-supported.

Try uninstalling that.

Copynvm uninstall 18.0.0

Install a version that is active.

Copynvm install 16.0.0

You should now be using v16 which should be well-supported.

You can install Node.js v17.x by nvm (Node.js version manager).

My OS version: Ubuntu 18.04.6 LTS (Bionic Beaver)

I tried three ways to install Node.js and npm on my pc:

1. (fail) apt-get. The version is very old

   $ sudo apt-get install nodejs
   $ sudo apt-get install npm
   $ node -v
   v8.10.0
   
   $ npm -v
   6.1.0
   

2. (fail) script from source code of Node.js, only Node.js is updated, npm is not. https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/blob/master/README.md#using-ubuntu-1

   $ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_14.x -o /tmp/nodesource14_setup.sh
   $ node -v
   v14.20.1
   
   $ npm -v
   6.1.0
   

3. (success) use nvm

   https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm#installing-and-updating

   $ sudo apt-get remove nodejs
   $ sudo apt-get remove npm
   
   $ curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.39.2/install.sh | bash
   $ chmod +x ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
   $ source ~/.bashrc
   
    nvm install 14
   
   $ node -v
   v14.20.1
    nvm install 16
   
   $ node -v
   v16.18.0
   
    nvm install 17
   
   $ node -v
   v17.9.1
   
   $ npm -v
   8.11.0
   
   # Failed to install 18
   $ nvm install 18
   
   $ node -v
   node: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by node)
   
   $ npm -v
   node: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.28' not found (required by node)
   

Observed the same error on the Linux machine of AWS.

This error will also be observed when we have installed Node JS and when we check the version. To resolve the issue we need to have greater than GLIBCv2.6. Amazon provides Linux boxes with GLIBC v2.6 and greater version than this as well. Before starting dev work use the below command to select a suitable machine

command used : ldd --version (on Amazon Linux machine) :