How do you uninstall node.js using the cmd line in linux?
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If you installed from source, you can issue the following command:
sudo make uninstall
If you followed the instructions on https://github.com/nodejs/node/wiki to install to your $HOME/local/node, then you have to type the following before the line above:
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/node
If you installed node using curl
+ yum
:
sudo curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | bash -
sudo yum -y install nodejs
Then you can remove it using yum
:
sudo yum remove nodejs
Note that using the curl
script causes the wrong version of node to be installed. There is a bug that causes node
v6.7 to be installed instead of v4.x intended by the path (../setup_4.x)
used in the curl
script.
In Ubuntu 12.04 simply type this
$ sudo apt-get remove nodejs
It will uninstall nodejs and npm as well simple.
I think Manoj Gupta had the best answer from what I'm seeing. However, the remove command doesn't get rid of any configuration folders or files that may be leftover. Use:
sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove nodejs
The purge command should remove the package and then clean up any configuration files. (see this question for more info on the difference between purge and remove). The auto-remove flag will do the same for packages that were installed by NodeJS.
See the accepted answer on this question for a better explanation.
Although don't forget to handle NPM! Josh's answer covers that.
The answer of George Bailey works fine. I would just add the following flags and use sudo if needed:
sudo rm -rf bin/node bin/node-waf include/node lib/node lib/pkgconfig/nodejs.pc share/man/man1/node
Best way to go around this is to do it right from the BEGINNING:
INSTALL BREW
#HERE IS HOW: PASTE IN TERMINAL
sudo apt-get install build-essential curl git m4 ruby texinfo libbz2-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libexpat-dev libncurses-dev zlib1g-dev
ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/linuxbrew/go/install)"
Then at the end of your .bashrc file(In your home directory press Ctrl + H)
export PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"
export MANPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/man:$MANPATH"
export INFOPATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/share/info:$INFOPATH"
Then restart terminal so the modification to .bashrc are reloaded
TO INSTALL NODE
brew install node
TO CHECK VERSION
node -v
npm -v
TO UPDATE NODE
brew update
brew upgrade node
TO UNINSTALL NODE
brew uninstall node
after installing using the "ROCK-SOLID NODE.JS PLATFORM ON UBUNTU" script, i get this output. Which tells you how to uninstall nodejs.
Done. The new package has been installed and saved to
/tmp/node-install/node-v0.8.19/nodejs_0.8.19-1_i386.deb
You can remove it from your system anytime using:
dpkg -r nodejs
This is better to remove NodeJS and its modules manually because installation leaves a lot of files, links and modules behind and later it create problems while we reconfigure another version of NodeJS and its modules. Run the following commands.
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/npm /usr/local/share/man/man1/node* /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d ~/.npm ~/.node-gyp /opt/local/bin/node opt/local/include/node /opt/local/lib/node_modules
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node*
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/include/node*
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/node*
and this done.
A step by step guide with commands is at http://amcositsupport.blogspot.in/2016/07/to-completely-uninstall-node-js-from.html
This helped me resolve my problem.
If you have yum you could do:
yum remove nodesource-release* nodejs
yum clean all
And after that check if its deleted:
rpm -qa 'node|npm'
To uninstall node I followed the accepted answer by @George, as I no longer have the sources, but before doing so I ran:
sudo npm rm npm -g
That seemed to get rid of npm from the system directories such as /usr/bin/npm
and /usr/lib/npm
. I got the command from here. I then found a ~/.npm
directory, which I deleted manually. Honestly I don't know if every trace of npm has been removed, but I can't find anything else.
Sorry the answer of George Bailey does work very fine when you want absolutely remove the node from your machine.
This answer is referred from : @tedeh https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/issues/486
If you wanna install a new version of node you have to use the code below
sudo rm -rf /var/cache/yum
sudo yum remove -y nodejs
sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/nodesource*
sudo yum clean all
And add new nodejs version to "yum" an new version of node
#using this command for Node version 8
curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo bash -
#using this command for Node version 10
curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo bash -
Install nodejs
sudo yum -y install nodejs
I hope it gonna help you guy!!!
if you want to just update node, there's a neat updater too
https://github.com/creationix/nvm
to use,
git clone git://github.com/creationix/nvm.git ~/.nvm
source ~/.nvm/nvm.sh
nvm install v0.4.1
I think this works, at least partially (have not investigated):
nvm uninstall <VERSION_TO_UNINSTALL>
eg:
nvm uninstall 4.4.5
Source: Stackoverflow.com