README: Add install instructions for "npm" on Ubuntu

Installing npm is tricky apparently, so provide detailed instructions to prevent the obscure package errors "apt install npm" often reports. Signed-off-by: Mike Looijmans <[email protected]>
balena-os · Sep 6, 2023 · 84caa3d · 84caa3d
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@@ -32,6 +32,10 @@ distribution is [supported](https://docs.yoctoproject.org/singleindex.html#suppo
 
 Additional host tools need to be installed for native builds to work.
 
+* Install the "npm" package, doing it like this circumvents issues with broken dependencies:
+  sudo apt-get install nodejs-dev node-gyp libssl1.0-dev
+  sudo apt-get install npm
+
 * Run the barys build script:
   `./balena-yocto-scripts/build/barys`