Unable to uninstall node from ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Question

I tried these two commands to uninstall node js but I am not able to do it.

sudo apt-get purge nodejs
sudo apt-get autoremove

when I check for version, it shows

v9.3.0

And I want to install node 8.x

also check https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32426601/completly-uninstall-nodejs-npm-and-node-in-ubuntu-14-04 — Suraj Rao, Jan 24 '18 at 06:13

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 23 '18 at 12:49

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I got the same problem.

Step 1: Find the node location using

rails@rails-All-Series:~$ whereis node
node: /usr/local/bin/node

Step2: Remove node module from these the location.

rails@rails-All-Series:/usr/local/bin$sudo rm -rf node

answered May 23 '18 at 12:49

Mr Singh

score -1 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 31 '20 at 09:15

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Below mentioned link specifies how to delete node package from ubuntu

sudo apt-get purge nodejs

it will only be purging related nodejs packages

Other Alternative will be:

 sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove nodejs

it will be implementing the below mentioned commands internally:

 sudo apt-get purge nodejs
 sudo apt-get autoremove

autoremove will actually be removing the related package and they were installed as a dependency module .

edited Oct 31 '20 at 09:15

Osama Rizwan

answered May 23 '18 at 13:20

Rohan

Now you just plagiarized the answer. Copy-Pasting is not the solution. – Filnor May 23 '18 at 14:42

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