Reinstall Node.js

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What's the best way to reinstall node.js?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 22 '11 at 20:30

If you've already installed node, then add a a make uninstall in there too as the first step. So make uninstall; make clean; make; make install; should do it. Note that this has to be run from the source directory for the nodejs version you currently have installed.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 28 '11 at 15:22

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If you are going to reinstall you might as well allow for multiple versions, so I would highly recommend NVM

answered May 28 '11 at 15:22

fullstacklife

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Oct 16 '10 at 02:05

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make clean

make

make install

answered Oct 16 '10 at 02:05

Dan Grossman

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered May 28 '11 at 16:14

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Assuming you pulled and built from source, you can follow the above examples. If you installed Node though apt-get, you can try something like this:

$ sudo apt-get remove nodejs

or

$ sudo apt-get --purge remove nodejs

answered May 28 '11 at 16:14

naivedeveloper

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Reinstall Node.js

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