Downgrade npm to an older version

I tried updating npm to see if it would solve some dependency problems we were having, and now I want to downgrade to the version the rest of the development team is using. How can I install an older version?

I updated npm according to the instructions on the installation page:

Updating npm

Node comes with npm installed so you should have a version of npm. However, npm gets updated more frequently than Node does, so you'll want to make sure it's the latest version.

npm install npm@latest -g

Just replace @latest with the version number you want to downgrade to. I wanted to downgrade to version 3.10.10, so I used this command:

npm install -g [email protected]

If you're not sure which version you should use, look at the version history. For example, you can see that 3.10.10 is the latest version of npm 3.

Just need to add version of which you want

upgrade or downgrade

npm install -g npm@version

Example if you want to downgrade from npm 5.6.0 to 4.6.1 then,

npm install -g [email protected]

It is tested on linux

npm install -g npm@4

This will install the latest version on the major release 4, so no need to specify version number. Replace 4 with whatever major release you want.

To downgrade NPM to a specific version, you can use the following command:

npm install -g npm@[version_number]

Instead of using the @latest tag, you can use the number of the desired version you want,

for example:

npm install -g [email protected]