source: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/nodejs-node-version-manager

Step 1: enter this to your terminal and close it

curl -o- <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.34.0/install.sh> | bash

Step 2: enter this to your terminal

export NVM_DIR="$HOME/.nvm"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh" ] && \\. "$NVM_DIR/nvm.sh"
[ -s "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion" ] && \\. "$NVM_DIR/bash_completion"

Step 3: download node version 17. This is the one we are using

nvm install 17

Step 4: use node version 17

nvm use 17