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Question

I updated my angular to v9 and when I try to go back in v8, I receive this error. I have already tried the following:

• uninstall -global angular/cli
• un

Answer 1

Personally, the best solution is:

ng update @angular/cli @angular/core

Why? Because sooner or later, you need to upgrade to Angular 9+ and the other solutions are only to downgrade it.

I was facing the same issue today until I used this solution and this one works perfectly well.