How can I completely uninstall and then reinstall Meteor.js?

Question

My app started crashing for absolutely no reason. I rolled back to a version I knew worked, but it is still crashing. I cloned a version from github that I absolutely know

Answer 1

I think the easiest is

curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

Answer 2

There's something else here too, I read a file, located in /usr/local/bin/ named meteor in the comments on the top it was written:

    #!/bin/bash

# This is the script that we install somewhere in your $PATH (as "meteor")
# when you run
#   $ curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh
# It's the only file that we install globally on your system; each user of
# Meteor gets their own personal package and tools repository, called the
# warehouse (or, for 0.9.0 and newer, the "tropohouse"), in ~/.meteor/. This
# means that a user can share packages among multiple apps and automatically
# update to new releases without having to have permissions to write them to
# anywhere global.
#
# All this script does is exec ~/.meteor/meteor. But what if you don't have it
# yet? In that case, it downloads a "bootstrap tarball", which contains the
# latest version of the Meteor tools, and plops it down at ~/.meteor. In fact,
# once you've run this once, you don't even really need this script: you can put
# ~/.meteor/ into your PATH, or a symlink to ~/.meteor/meteor into some other
# PATH directory. No special permissions needed!
#
# To uninstall Meteor from your system, just delete this shell script, and
# delete your warehouse (~/.meteor/).

Here's the line to uninstall meteor :

# To uninstall Meteor from your system, just delete this shell script, and
# delete your warehouse (~/.meteor/).

And voila! where's the warehouse! some of you might think this warehouse as the .meteor folder in the projects, but it's not! 2-3 lines below it is written:

METEOR_WAREHOUSE_DIR="${METEOR_WAREHOUSE_DIR:-$HOME/.meteor}"

that's where the warehouse is!

Reseting a Meteor Project is done by "meteor reset" would only reset your project packages.

P.S. This is for meteor v1+

Answer 3

Let’s start with the deletions, then we’ll move on to the reinstallations.

1. If you ever installed Meteorite, uninstall and delete it:

   sudo mrt uninstall
   sudo mrt uninstall --system
   rm -rf ~/.meteorite
   

2. Then delete Meteor:

   sudo rm /usr/local/bin/meteor
   rm -rf ~/.meteor
   

Now start over at the beginning:

1. Repair permissions if necessary:

   sudo chown -R $(whoami) ~/.npm
   

2. Reinstall Meteor:

   curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh
   

3. Next check that your project has all its proper packages:

   cd /path/to/your/project
   meteor update
   

4. If your project still won’t compile, you can reset it (warning: deletes database):

   cd /path/to/your/project
   meteor reset
   

5. Still no luck? Recreate the Meteor project (warning: deletes database and the project’s memory of what packages you’ve installed):

   cd /path/to/your/project
   rm -rf ./.meteor
   cd ..
   meteor create project-new
   rm ./project-new/project-new.*
   mv ./project/* ./project-new/
   cd ./project-new
   

   (and run meteor add *packagename* over and over to reinstall each package you were using)

Answer 4

If you are searching for answer in 2017/2018 on Windows Operating Systems:

choco uninstall meteor

Then

choco install meteor

Answer 5

Uninstalling Meteor for Linux and OS X users

Open up terminal and run the following command-

1. sudo rm /usr/local/bin/meteor
2. rm -rf ~/.meteor

Installing Meteor

Open up terminal and run the following command-

1. curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh

Answer 6

I tried all of this and none of it worked.

Then I ran meteor --verbose in the command line and it seems to have sorted out the kinks! A quick meteor reset and everything is working again now!