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Cant uninstall forever nodejs

I installed the package forever with

npm install forever -g

When I tried to remove with

npm uninstall -g forever

It gives me the message up to date in 0.042s

But I can still use the forever command line.

Tried to restart the machine already, did not work so far.

I will appreciate any help with this.

Solution

  • Uninstalling an npm package

    The command is simple as below,

    npm uninstall <name>

    Note: If you're removing a global package, any applications referencing it will crash. Here are the options to uninstall,

    npm uninstall <name> removes the module from node_modules, but not package.json

    npm uninstall <name> --save removes it from dependencies in package.json

    npm uninstall <name> --save-dev also removes it from devDependencies in package.json

    npm -g uninstall <name> --save also removes it globally

    Checking if it is still installed

    Use the list command with the -g flag to see all packages that are installed globally:

    npm list -g

    To check if a specific package is installed globally, you can provide the name of package (grunt in this case) as seen below:

    npm list -g <name>