How to upgrade yarn version using terminal?

Question

How should yarn be upgraded to the latest version?

Answer 1

npm install --global yarn
npm upgrade --global yarn 

This should work.

Answer 2

npm install -g yarn - solved the issue when nothing happened running npm update --global yarn.

Alternative method to update yarn: curl --compressed -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash.

Mac users with homebrew can run brew upgrade yarn.

More details here and here.

Answer 3

If you already have yarn 1.x and you want to upgrade to yarn 2. You need to do something a bit different:

yarn set version berry

Where berry is the code name for yarn version 2. See this migration guide here for more info.

Answer 4

For macOS users, if you installed yarn via brew, you can upgrade it using the below command:

brew upgrade yarn

Answer 5

1. Add Yarn Package Directory:

curl -sS https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/pubkey.gpg | sudo apt-key add - echo "deb https://dl.yarnpkg.com/debian/ stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/yarn.list

2. Install Yarn:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install yarn

Please note that the last command will upgrade yarn to latest version if package already installed.

For more info you can check the docs: yarn installation

Answer 6

I updated yarn on my Ubuntu by running the following command from my terminal

curl --compressed -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash

source:https://yarnpkg.com/lang/en/docs/cli/self-update