Problems with Node npm on Ubuntu 12.04

Question

I downloaded node a week ago and it was running fine, except today I realized that the version was far outdated. I tried to uninstall node and npm manually by deleting files (read a different stackoverflow question), but node still runs as well as npm.

How do I successfully uninstall both of them and install the correct versions of them?

Answer 1

You could type

which node

in your terminal to see where node is installed. Same with npm. Remove those files. I really like installing node using nvm .