I just downloaded node.js via their website and found that the version I had on my local machine was way outdated (v5.11pre). So, seeing that there was a 10.2 version out, I decided to completely uninstall node.js from my machine and reinstall the latest and greatest version!
After going through the steps to install everything I ran the following command and found out something strange:
$ node --version
v0.5.11-pre
Can someone explain why the tarball for node 10.2 just installed a extremely old version of node? Also, how can I get the newest version!?
EDIT:
If it helps, I'm using Ubuntu 12.04.
I guess that the correct version was installed indeed, but your path still points to the old installation.
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Mac OS 10.13.6 with homebrew installed, today had to upgrade it because of new homebrew policy
Can't update or upgrade Homebrew
after doing this, tried upgrading node to latest version and got below error
Warning: You are using macOS 10.13.
We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version.
You will encounter build failures with some formulae.
Please create pull requests instead of asking for help on Homebrew's GitHub,
Twitter or any other official channels. You are responsible for resolving
any issues you experience while you are running this
old version.
Error: node not installed
In fact I do have old version of node installed
node -v
v12.0.0
how to solve this weird problem ?
Note:
Few weeks back I did below to use older version of node
Install NVM On Mac With Brew
I'm really confused atm, who is managing node on MAC ? Is it NVM / homebrew ?
title says it all. I have been using nodejs with npm for while now and it has been working fine, but I went to check the version and noticed it was an older one. Nodejs - version 8.10.0 and npm - version 3.5.2. I know there are more recent versions of each and like I said I went to download the new version of Nodejs and I got it. I have the path set up to its location in my Environment Variable. I'm not sure what I'm missing. Would love any help.
Edit: Forgot to mention on my original post that I am on Windows.
Edit2: So I was looking at it more and I am using the Ubuntu Bash Shell on muy windows computer. Whenever I check the version in the normal Windows Command Prompt it displays the right version, but when I check it in the Bash shell it is wrong. Any ideas why this happens?
The Node Version Manager. You can find it at https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows
It allows you to easily install and manage multiple versions of node. Here's a snippet from the help:
Usage:
nvm install <version> Download and install a <version>
nvm use <version> Modify PATH to use <version>
nvm ls List versions (installed versions)
install and Usage:
nvm install 6.14.4 # or 10.10.0, 8.9.1, etc
and then
nvm use 6.14.4
So, I was able to solve my own issue
These two links were very important for solving my issue:
E: Unable to locate package npm
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10#update-to-wsl-2
So basically after uninstalling nodejs I went and tried uninstalling and reinstalling my Ubuntu Bash shell. Once I had the Bash shell set up again I tried running the commands listed in the stackoverflow post I have listed above. (note: When you run the curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash - line you need to adjust the "setup" version to 14.x) When I ran all the commands I was able to get my npm version up-to-date, but my nodejs was still being stuck at version 10.x. I tried running the install again on nodejs and thats when I noticed an error reading gpg: can't connect to the agent: IPC connect call failed I did some research on this error and foudn out my WSL1 would not allow it to update to the most recent version. Thats how I found my way to the Microsoft page that led to me needing to update my version of Windows to 1909 and then installing WSL2 through Power Shell. Everything is now up-to-date and working!
You could Uninstall both versions and reinstall the newer version. That should do it
Or better still download the NVM and follow the instructions from here
https://blog.logrocket.com/switching-between-node-versions-during-development/
I'm trying to install node.js on Ubuntu using linuxbrew. I'm running the following commands:
brew update
brew info node
the output is
node: stable 6.0.0, HEAD
However version 6.1.0 should already be available (you could verify it in e.g braumeister)
Any ideas what could be the issue here?
Linuxbrew is built on top of Homebrew and updates to the latter need to be manually ported to the former, which is why you can expect a small update lag. Braumeister and similar websites get their infos from Homebrew.
Im interested on installing the 0.12.0 version of Node.js on a CentOS 6 machine. I have noticed however that through yum, the latest version available is 0.10.33.
Given my environment I can ONLY install packages through RPM, and as I might be inclined to generate my own rpm of Node.js 0.12.0, I would like to know if there is any specific reason why the latest version has yet been made available. Are there by any chance some known problems when running the latest version of Node.js on CentOS 6? Or are there any stable 0.12.0 rpm packages out there I might have missed?
Thanks in advance!
Apparently there is no problem:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/nodejs/tqiKHCqpeuM
Node v0.12.0 should be stable on all versions os Centos back to 5.7
I am new to Ubuntu (linux).
I installed node.js for a project.
Recently I am getting this error on npm install.
Error: "pre" versions of node cannot be installed, use the --nodedir flag instead
I found a stack link below as
Node pre error
Under the solution it asks for the directory where node.js is installed and currently i am clueless where the nodejs is installed.
Please help me on how can I locate the directory where node.js is installed.
Quick explanation
You have a version with -pre. Get rid of it and put the latest stable version from nodejs.org.
You can use which to locate a command. For your case, type which nodejs.
EDIT: The answer from your link is referring to the path of node source code, not the nodejs binary.
On Ubuntu, most software can be installed from the built-in repositories. This updates it for you (even if it's sometimes a bit outdated).
To install the stable version the Ubuntu way, install the nodejs-legacy package (after uninstalling your version):
sudo apt install nodejs-legacy
To use the latest, refer to https://askubuntu.com/a/663052/438156 (my answer), or https://askubuntu.com/a/711976/438156 (bit more involved, more the Ubuntu way).