How to install latest version of Node using Brew

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The latest version of NodeJs right now is 0 4 1  The command brew install node right now  installs 0 2 6 - which is not ideal  I would like 0 4 1  I ve looked at this list of commands for brew and tried brew install --HEAD node  But that installs node 0 5-pre   Why isn t brew installing the right version and how can I force it to get the right one   At this stage  it looks like it would actually be easier just to download the src and install it manually  But I would like to know what s going on with Brew

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Run commands below  in this order   brew update brew doctor brew upgrade node   Now you have installed updated version of node  and it s probably not linked  If it s not  then just type  brew link node or brew link --overwrite node

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I did this on Mac OSX Sierra  I had Node 6 1 installed but Puppetter required Node 6 4  This is what I did   brew upgrade node brew unlink node brew link --overwrite node 8 echo  export PATH   usr local opt node 8 bin  PATH    gt  gt     bash profile   And then open a new terminal window and run   node -v v8 11 2   The --overwrite is necessary to override conflicting files between node6 and node8

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If you have installed current node via Homebrew  just use these commands   brew update brew upgrade node   Check node version by  node -v

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You can use nodebrew  It can switch node versions too

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Just used this solution with Homebrew 0 9 5 and it seemed like a quick solution to upgrade to the latest stable version of node   brew update   This will install the latest version  brew install node   Unlink your current version of node use  node -v  to find this  brew unlink node012   This will change to the most up to date version of node   brew link node   Note  This solution worked as a result of me getting this error      Error  No such keg   usr local Cellar node

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Just go old skool - https   nodejs org en download current  From there you can get the current or LTS versions

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Also  try to deactivate the current node version after installing a new node version  It helps me    nvm deactivate   This is removed  Users user name  nvm   bin from  PATH  And after that node was updated  node --version v10 9 0

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Try to use  n  the Node extremely simple package manager    gt  npm install -g n   Once you have  n  installed  You can pull the latest node by doing the following    gt  n latest   I ve used it successfully on Ubuntu 16 0x and MacOS 10 12  Sierra   Reference  https   github com tj n

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If you re willing to remove the brew dependency  I would recommend nvm - I can t really recommend it over any other versioning solution because I haven t needed to try anything else   Having the ability to switch instantly between versions depending on which project you re working on is pretty valuable

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if the node is not installed then brew install node  If you have an older version of node install then remove it and install freshly that s the only suitable way  Make sure to add the path in the environment file

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Sometimes brew update fails on me because one package doesn t download properly  So you can just upgrade a specific library like this   brew upgrade node   https   gist github com 3005832

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After installation upgrading node via brew I ran into this issue exactly  the node command worked but not the npm command   I used these commands to fix it   brew uninstall node brew update brew upgrade brew cleanup brew install node sudo chown -R   whoami   usr local brew link --overwrite node brew postinstall node   I pieced together this solution after trial and error using      a github thread  https   github com npm npm issues 3125 this site  http   developpeers com blogs fix-for-homebrew-permission-denied-issues

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I had to do brew link --overwrite node after brew install node to update from 0 4 to 0 8 18

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Have you run brew update first  If you don t do that  Homebrew can t update its formulas  and if it doesn t update its formulas it doesn t know how to install the latest versions of software

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node -v will show you the current version  npm -v will show you the current version  brew link --overwrite --dry-run node will force the link and overwrite all conflicting files  brew install node do a fresh installation  brew update brew upgrade node brew link --overwrite node  or  brew link node   Node Upgrade Procedure are below

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