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Stephen Last
Stephen Last

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NodeJS - Why is node reporting wrong version..?

I'm running Windows 7 Pro, and did have Node v4.2.2.

I've just been to https://nodejs.org/en/ and downloaded "node-v6.10.1-x64.msi" to upgrade to v6.10.1 (the current LTS).

I installed this and restarted my machine, but now running node -v on the command line returns v0.10.40.

I've checked my system PATH variable, which has C:\Program Files\nodejs\. When I view the properties of C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe it shows "Product version" as 6.10.1 on the Details tab.

Why is node -v reporting v0.10.40 when I've updated to v6.10.1..??

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Answers (1)

Stephen Last
Stephen Last

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I have Atom installed, which has it's own version of node installed at:

C:\Program Files\Atom\resources\app\apm\bin

The node.exe in here is v0.10.40.

This path was before C:\Program Files\nodejs\ in the system PATH variables list, so doing node -v found the Atom version before the version in C:\Program Files\nodejs\.

Manually putting C:\Program Files\nodejs\ first in the system PATH variables list, and restarting the command prompt fixed this.

node -v now reports v6.10.1.

Upvotes: 9

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