removal - Cleaning the Slate Synopsis So sad to see you go. sudo npm uninstall npm -g Or, if that fails, get the npm source code, and do: sudo make uninstall More Severe Uninstalling Usually, the above instructions are sufficient. That will remove npm, but leave behind anything you've installed. If that doesn't work, or if you require more drastic measures, continue reading. Note that this is only necessary for globally-installed packages. Local installs are completely contained within a project's node_modules folder. Delete that folder, and everything is gone less a package's install script is particularly ill-behaved). This assumes that you installed node and npm in the default place. If you configured node with a different --prefix, or installed npm with a different prefix setting, then adjust the paths accordingly, replacing /usr/local with your install prefix. To remove everything npm-related manually: rm -rf /usr/local/{lib/node{,/.npm,_modules},bin,share/man}/npm* If you installed things with npm, then your best bet is to uninstall them with npm first, and then install them again once you have a proper install. This can help find any symlinks that are lying around: ls -laF /usr/local/{lib/node{,/.npm},bin,share/man} | grep npm Prior to version 0.3, npm used shim files for executables and node mod- ules. To track those down, you can do the following: find /usr/local/{lib/node,bin} -exec grep -l npm \{\} \; ; See also o npm help uninstall o npm help prune
Please see following description for synopsis
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NAME
removal - Cleaning the Slate
Synopsis
So sad to see you go.
sudo npm uninstall npm -g
Or, if that fails, get the npm source code, and do:
sudo make uninstall
More Severe Uninstalling
Usually, the above instructions are sufficient. That will remove npm,
but leave behind anything you've installed.
If that doesn't work, or if you require more drastic measures, continue
reading.
Note that this is only necessary for globally-installed packages.
Local installs are completely contained within a project's node_modules
folder. Delete that folder, and everything is gone less a package's
install script is particularly ill-behaved).
This assumes that you installed node and npm in the default place. If
you configured node with a different --prefix, or installed npm with a
different prefix setting, then adjust the paths accordingly, replacing
/usr/local with your install prefix.
To remove everything npm-related manually:
rm -rf /usr/local/{lib/node{,/.npm,_modules},bin,share/man}/npm*
If you installed things with npm, then your best bet is to uninstall
them with npm first, and then install them again once you have a proper
install. This can help find any symlinks that are lying around:
ls -laF /usr/local/{lib/node{,/.npm},bin,share/man} | grep npm
Prior to version 0.3, npm used shim files for executables and node mod-
ules. To track those down, you can do the following:
find /usr/local/{lib/node,bin} -exec grep -l npm \{\} \; ;
See also
o npm help uninstall
o npm help prune
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(7) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+---------------+--------------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Availability | runtime/nodejs/nodejs-18 |
+---------------+--------------------------+
|Stability | Pass-thru volatile |
+---------------+--------------------------+
NOTES
Source code for open source software components in Oracle Solaris can
be found at https://www.oracle.com/downloads/opensource/solaris-source-
code-downloads.html.
This software was built from source available at
https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland. The original community
source was downloaded from https://github.com/nodejs/node/ar-
chive/v18.1.0.zip.
Further information about this software can be found on the open source
community website at https://github.com/nodejs/node.
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