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 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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