Can't uninstall global npm packages after installing nvm

Question

I\'ve found several threads related to this issue but none seem to deal with my case specifically and I\'ve been unable to solve using the suggestions I\'ve found.

Answer 1

Sorry I know this is an old question but here we are in 2019 and was just an issue for me ... what I found is that I needed to invoke uninstall on the npm at the path that NVM cares about.

Here's what worked for me:

Tue Aug 20 08:09:07 ~
 $ npm uninstall -g edgemicro@3.0.4
up to date in 0.051s
Tue Aug 20 08:09:13 ~
 $ edgemicro --version
current nodejs version is v8.16.0
current edgemicro version is 3.0.4
3.0.4
// Clearly didn’t work :(

// Let’s try sudo ….
Tue Aug 20 08:09:18 ~
 $ sudo npm uninstall -g edgemicro@3.0.4
Password:
up to date in 0.035s
Tue Aug 20 08:10:20 ~
 $ edgemicro --version
current nodejs version is v8.16.0
current edgemicro version is 3.0.4
3.0.4
// Still didn’t work :(

// So where is this seemingly immortal executable?
Tue Aug 20 08:10:28 ~
 $ which edgemicro
/Users//.nvm/versions/node/v8.16.0/bin/edgemicro
// It’s under some NVM specific path it seems.
// It seems NPM is also under some NVM specific path, kinda expected.
Tue Aug 20 08:10:33 ~
 $ which npm
/Users//.nvm/versions/node/v8.16.0/bin/npm

// So let’s use that exact npm to perform the uninstall …
Tue Aug 20 08:10:42 ~
 $ /Users//.nvm/versions/node/v8.16.0/bin/npm uninstall -g edgemicro
npm WARN read-shrinkwrap This version of npm is compatible with lockfileVersion@1, but npm-shrinkwrap.json was generated for lockfileVersion@0. I'll try to do my best with it!
removed 2442 packages in 25.851s
Tue Aug 20 08:11:24 ~
 $ which edgemicro
Tue Aug 20 08:11:29 ~
 $ // Done.