I installed NodeJS from pkg file on my Mac. Now I need to uninstall it. Tell me please how to do it. I tried to remove files from this list:
lsbom -f -l -s -pf /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.pkg.bom
But node is still on my computer.
I installed NodeJS from pkg file on my Mac. Now I need to uninstall it. Tell me please how to do it. I tried to remove files from this list:
lsbom -f -l -s -pf /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.pkg.bom
But node is still on my computer.
I ran:
lsbom -f -l -s -pf /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.pkg.bom \ | while read i; do sudo rm /usr/local/${i} done sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node \ /usr/local/lib/node_modules \ /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.*
Coded into gist 2697848
Update It seems the receipts .bom
file name may have changed so you may need to replace org.nodejs.pkg.bom
with org.nodejs.node.pkg.bom
in the above. The gist has been updated accordingly.
If you installed Node from their website, try this:
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/{bin/{node,npm},lib/node_modules/npm,lib/node,share/man/*/node.*}
This worked for me, but if you have any questions, my GitHub is 'mnafricano'.
Following previous posts, here is the full list I used
sudo npm uninstall npm -g sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.* sudo rm -rf /usr/local/include/node /Users/$USER/.npm sudo rm /usr/local/bin/node sudo rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/node.1 sudo rm /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d brew install node
In order to delete the 'native' node.js installation, I have used the method suggested in previous answers sudo npm uninstall npm -g
, with additional sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.*
.
BUT, I had to also delete the following two directories:
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/include/node /Users/$USER/.npm
Only after that I could install node.js with Homebrew.
This is the full list of commands I used (Many thanks to the posters above):
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.* sudo rm -rf /usr/local/include/node /Users/$USER/.npm sudo rm /usr/local/bin/node sudo rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/node.1 brew install node
Use npm to uninstall. Just running sudo npm uninstall npm -g
removes all the files. To get rid of the extraneous stuff like bash pathnames run this (from nicerobot's answer):
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node \ /usr/local/lib/node_modules \ /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.*
I took AhrB's list, while appended three more files. Here is the full list I have used:
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.* sudo rm -rf /usr/local/include/node /Users/$USER/.npm sudo rm /usr/local/bin/node sudo rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/node.1 sudo rm /usr/local/bin/npm sudo rm /usr/local/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp sudo rm /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d # In case you want to reinstall node with HomeBrew: # brew install node
A little convenience script expanding on previous answers.
#!/bin/bash # Uninstall node.js # # Options: # # -d Actually delete files, otherwise the script just _prints_ a command to delete. # -p Installation prefix. Default /usr/local # -f BOM file. Default /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.pkg.bom CMD="echo sudo rm -fr" BOM_FILE="/var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.pkg.bom" PREFIX="/usr/local" while getopts "dp:f:" arg; do case $arg in d) CMD="sudo rm -fr" ;; p) PREFIX=$arg ;; f) BOM_FILE=$arg ;; esac done lsbom -f -l -s -pf ${BOM_FILE} \ | while read i; do $CMD ${PREFIX}/${i} done $CMD ${PREFIX}/lib/node \ ${PREFIX}/lib/node_modules \ ${BOM_FILE}
Save it to file and run with:
# bash filename.sh
I had to remove the following files too since brew complained in install later after manually removing all files.
/usr/local/share/doc/node/gdbinit /usr/local/share/systemtap/tapset/node.stp
and then do the following
brew install node brew link node