Uninstall nodejs from OSX Yosemite

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# first:
lsbom -f -l -s -pf /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.pkg.bom | while read f; do  sudo rm /usr/local/${f}; done
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.*

# To recap, the best way (I've found) to completely uninstall node + npm is to do the following:

# go to /usr/local/lib and delete any node and node_modules
cd /usr/local/lib
sudo rm -rf node*

# go to /usr/local/include and delete any node and node_modules directory
cd /usr/local/include
sudo rm -rf node*

# if you installed with brew install node, then run brew uninstall node in your terminal
brew uninstall node

# check your Home directory for any "local" or "lib" or "include" folders, and delete any "node" or "node_modules" from there
# go to /usr/local/bin and delete any node executable
cd /usr/local/bin
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/npm
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/node
ls -las

# you may need to do the additional instructions as well:
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/man/man1/node.1
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d
sudo rm -rf ~/.npm

Thanks you so much

Thanks Tony!

Thanks !

Thanks so much! Very useful! Here works fine on macOS High Sierra 10.13.2

Thx!

Thank you! Worked on Mac OS High Sierra 10.13.4 beta

Thanks !!
Worked on Mac OS High Sierra

Thank you, a million times over!
Worked on Mac OS Yosemite 10.10.5

Cool! Thanks

Thanks dude!

Great. Many thranks

Wonderful tips. Thank you so much.

THNX

after all of this when I type node -v still showing me v6.14.3

Thank you so much it helped me

Quick and easy. thanks!

Check the $Path variable 'echo $PATH' to check where is 'node -v' command looking. And remove it from there.

Thank you so much for this!

yay I think this worked. Mojave

Thanks a lot :) It helped me too!

Mojave here.
After typing node -v in my terminal I should expect: "-bash: node: command not found"?

Thank you so much! Struggling with it a lot. Savior!

not working at all. still get module not found... somehow, node modules get installed in wrong path in project when using mvn jgitflow finish release w/ --- frontend-maven-plugin:1.4:npm (run-npm-install) @

not working at all. still get module not found... somehow, node modules get installed in wrong path in project when using mvn jgitflow finish release w/ --- frontend-maven-plugin:1.4:npm (run-npm-install) @

It sounds like your installation is not correct. It is not related to this gist at all.

thank you for this!

Worked like charm!!!

Thanks for sharing 👍

Thanks for this!

Thanks. It saves the time of absolutely removing the node.js

Thank you for sharing @tonymtz 👍

Very helpful trick!

But as @e2tha-e wrote (thank you too 👍)

@tonymtz On my installation of Node v4.0.0 on Yosemite 10.10.5, the first line needed to be
lsbom -f -l -s -pf /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.node.pkg.bom | while read f; do sudo rm /usr/local/${f}; done
A different filename from org.nodejs.pkg.bom
Otherwise, this worked like a charm!

On macOS Big Sur version 11.2.3 (20D91) with nodejs Latest Current Version: 15.14.0 (includes npm 7.7.6) installed from official website, the file name is not org.nodejs.pkg.bom but org.nodejs.**node**.pkg.bom .

You can check this when you cd /var/db/receipts/ && ls -la.

So everyone, who wants to use this trick, please check the /var/db/receipts/ directory before to make sure you write the right file name.

Normally after that everything is ok.

thank you again @tonymtz & @e2tha-e

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