How to upgrade nodejs or npm

https://github.com/nodesource/distributions#debmanual

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -  sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

Error: *** Error in `appstreamcli': double free or corruption (fasttop): 
0x0000000000fe3990 ***

Solution:  sudo apt install --reinstall libappstream3