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Sathish Kannan
Sathish Kannan

Reputation: 171

Installing different Node version in wsl 2

I am trying to update my Nodejs to the latest version in WSL 2. My old version is v15.0.0 and is installed at active : v15.0.0 at /home/sathish/.nvm/versions/node/v15.0.0/bin/node My new version installed : v18.1.0 to /usr/local/bin/node

My shell is using the old one. I don't know how to make my shell to use the new version. What should I do to make my shell use the new version installed at a different location?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 3498

Answers (4)

Ankush Banik
Ankush Banik

Reputation: 1

You can run this

nvm install --lts

This command automatically installs a new stable node.js version and set that version globally

Upvotes: 0

Sathish Kannan
Sathish Kannan

Reputation: 171

I just uninstalled all versions and then reinstalled. It works now. Thanks for the answer.

Upvotes: -1

shihab eshtaiwi
shihab eshtaiwi

Reputation: 11

the simplest solution you should install nvm then using that install the latest version of node then change the default to the newest version https://www.codegrepper.com/code-examples/whatever/set+default+node+version+ubuntu+nvm

Upvotes: 1

Lajos Arpad
Lajos Arpad

Reputation: 76414

You need to run

nvm use <your version>

Read more here: https://blog.logrocket.com/switching-between-node-versions-during-development/

Upvotes: 2

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