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Problems updating bower to the latest version

I am using bower

$ bower -v
0.9.2

latest version of bower is 1.x.x https://github.com/bower/bower/releases

I run to update bower to the latest version

npm update -g bower

this does not help

I still have 

$ bower -v
0.9.2
Solution

  • 1) you have to clear npm cache and then update bower 

    sudo npm cache clean
npm update -g bower

    2) If 1st solution does not help

    try to remove and install it again

    npm -g uninstall bower
npm -g install bower

    check if it is still here 

    which bower

    if it will show you something like

    /usr/local/bin/bower

    then

    rm <path from previous command>

    and after install it again

    npm -g install bower

    open new bash window and enjoy latest version of bower

    same will help with other packages