无法在 Mac 上将节点版本从 8 切换到 10

Question

I tried various options available over the internet as listed below, but still node v8 is there even though I restarted my system as well-

 sudo npm install n -g

 sudo n stable

 npm install -g n

 sudo npm cache clean -f sudo npm install -g n sudo n stable

 brew update brew upgrade brew upgrade node

 brew update && brew upgrade node && npm update -g npm

 sudo npm cache clean -f sudo npm install -g n

 sudo rm -rf /opt/local/bin/node /opt/local/include/node
 /opt/local/lib/node_modules sudo rm -rf /usr/local/bin/npm
 /usr/local/share/man/man1/node.1 /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d

 brew uninstall --force node brew unlink node brew install node@10

Answer 1

use NVM to switch node versions, you can use the install script directly, restart the shell and start using it like:

nvm install <node_version>

if you want to get the list of available versions you can:

nvm ls-remote

if you want to see what versions has already been installed:

nvm ls

to switch a version is:

nvm use <node_version> # the version should be already installed using nvm install

and to set up a default version you can alias it like this:

nvm alias default

Hope it helps.

Answer 2

Mac OS with nvm installed. I was trying to change node from 10 to 12.

In my case, nvm use *.* didn't work. It used to work once with nvm use 10 , but later when I needed to switch to Node 12, nvm use 12 didn't work for me like other attempts to change.

So the steps that helped:

1. which -a node showed me that I have multiple paths to the node:

``

/usr/local/opt/node@10/bin
/Users/username/.nvm/versions/node/v12.22.7/bin/node
/opt/local/bin/node
/usr/local/bin/node

2. I have commented out (removed) the line with the unwanted path /usr/local/opt/node@10/bin in the files:

~/.bash_profile

~/.zshrc

3. Step 2 unfrozen the nvm use [version] command on my Mac.

Maybe it help someone.