How do I uninstall nodejs installed from pkg (Mac OS X)?

Question

I installed NodeJS from pkg file on my Mac. Now I need to uninstall it. Tell me please how to do it. I tried to remove files from this list:

lsbom -f

Answer 1

If you installed Node from their website, try this:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/{bin/{node,npm},lib/node_modules/npm,lib/node,share/man/*/node.*}

This worked for me, but if you have any questions, my GitHub is 'mnafricano'.

Answer 2

Use npm to uninstall. Just running sudo npm uninstall npm -g removes all the files. To get rid of the extraneous stuff like bash pathnames run this (from nicerobot's answer):

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node \ /usr/local/lib/node_modules \ /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.*

Answer 3

In order to delete the 'native' node.js installation, I have used the method suggested in previous answers sudo npm uninstall npm -g, with additional sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.*.

BUT, I had to also delete the following two directories:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/include/node /Users/$USER/.npm

Only after that I could install node.js with Homebrew.

Answer 4

Following previous posts, here is the full list I used

sudo npm uninstall npm -g
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.*
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/include/node /Users/$USER/.npm
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/node
sudo rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/node.1
sudo rm /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d
brew install node

Answer 5

A little convenience script expanding on previous answers.

#!/bin/bash

# Uninstall node.js
# 
# Options:
#
# -d Actually delete files, otherwise the script just _prints_ a command to delete.
# -p Installation prefix. Default /usr/local
# -f BOM file. Default /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.pkg.bom

CMD="echo sudo rm -fr"
BOM_FILE="/var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.pkg.bom"
PREFIX="/usr/local"

while getopts "dp:f:" arg; do
    case $arg in
        d)
            CMD="sudo rm -fr"
            ;;
        p)
            PREFIX=$arg
            ;;
        f)
            BOM_FILE=$arg
            ;;
    esac
done

lsbom -f -l -s -pf ${BOM_FILE} \
    | while read i; do
          $CMD ${PREFIX}/${i}
      done

$CMD ${PREFIX}/lib/node \
     ${PREFIX}/lib/node_modules \
     ${BOM_FILE}

Save it to file and run with:

# bash filename.sh

Answer 6

The following worked after trial and error, and these directories were not writable so, I removed them and finally was able to get node & npm replaced.

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/systemtap
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/share/doc/node
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/Cellar/node/9.11.1
brew install node
==> Downloading https://homebrew.bintray.com/bottles/node-9.11.1.high_sierra.bottle.tar.gz
Already downloaded: /Users/xxx/Library/Caches/Homebrew/node-9.11.1.high_sierra.bottle.tar.gz
==> Pouring node-9.11.1.high_sierra.bottle.tar.gz
==> Caveats
Bash completion has been installed to:
  /usr/local/etc/bash_completion.d
==> Summary