Reinstall Node.js

Question

What's the best way to reinstall node.js?

Answer 1

If you've already installed node, then add a a make uninstall in there too as the first step. So make uninstall; make clean; make; make install; should do it. Note that this has to be run from the source directory for the nodejs version you currently have installed.

Answer 2

If you are going to reinstall you might as well allow for multiple versions, so I would highly recommend NVM

Answer 3

make clean

make

make install

Answer 4

Assuming you pulled and built from source, you can follow the above examples. If you installed Node though apt-get, you can try something like this:

$ sudo apt-get remove nodejs

or

$ sudo apt-get --purge remove nodejs