Uninstall Node.JS using Linux command line?
Solution 1:
In Ubuntu 12.04 simply type this
$ sudo apt-get remove nodejs
It will uninstall nodejs and npm as well simple.
Solution 2:
Edit: If you know which package manager was used to install, it is best to uninstall with the same package manager. Examples for apt
, make
, yum
are in other answers.
This is a manual approach:
Running which node
will return something like /path/bin/node
.
Then run cd /path
This is all that is added by Node.JS.
rm -r bin/node bin/node-waf include/node lib/node lib/pkgconfig/nodejs.pc share/man/man1/node.1
Now the only thing I don't know about is npm and what it has installed. If you install npm again into a custom path that starts off empty, then you can see what it adds and then you will be able to make a list for npm similar to the above list I made for node.
Solution 3:
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
Solution 4:
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!!!