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Alice
Alice

Reputation: 1401

Cannot upgrade Node version with the common commands

I have trouble upgrading Node.js.

Currently, I have node --version "v0.8.18" and I would like to upgrade to the latest "v0.10.20". So I followed some answers that does not include NVM, since I want to know how to do it from scratch. However, after trying, I still get node --version "v0.8.18".

I am on an Ubuntu 11.04 machine, on my home directory.

Specifically I did:

Try 1: 

alice@simba:~$ node --version
v0.8.18

alice@simba:~$ sudo n stable
sudo: n: command not found

alice@simba:~$ sudo npm install n -g
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/n
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/n
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/n/-/n-1.1.0.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/n/-/n-1.1.0.tgz
/usr/bin/n -> /usr/lib/node_modules/n/bin/n
[email protected] /usr/lib/node_modules/n

alice@simba:~$ sudo n stable
     install : 0.10.20
       mkdir : /usr/local/n/versions/0.10.20
       fetch : http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.20/node-v0.10.20-linux-x64.tar.gz
        ...
        ...#############/usr/bin/node
       installed : v0.10.20

alice@simba:~$ node --version
v0.8.18

Try again:

alice@simba:~$ npm cache clean -f

alice@simba:~$ sudo npm install n -g
/usr/local/bin/n -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n/bin/n
[email protected] /usr/local/lib/node_modules/n

alice@simba:~$ n stable
/usr/local/bin/node

alice@simba:~$ sudo n stable
/usr/local/bin/node

alice@simba:~$ node --version
v0.8.18

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2139

Answers (1)

Richard Marr
Richard Marr

Reputation: 3064

I use nvm myself, but something I've bumped up against in the past is that installing a version and selecting a version as active are different operations.

It may be that your new version is installed but not currently the default. Try:

n use 0.10.20

Upvotes: 2

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