How to install latest version of Node using Brew

Run commands below, in this order:

brew update
brew doctor
brew upgrade node

Now you have installed updated version of node, and it's probably not linked. If it's not, then just type: brew link node or brew link --overwrite node

After installation/upgrading node via brew I ran into this issue exactly: the node command worked but not the npm command.

I used these commands to fix it.

brew uninstall node
brew update
brew upgrade
brew cleanup
brew install node
sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
brew link --overwrite node
brew postinstall node

I pieced together this solution after trial and error using...

a github thread: https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/3125

this site: http://developpeers.com/blogs/fix-for-homebrew-permission-denied-issues

Have you run brew update first? If you don't do that, Homebrew can't update its formulas, and if it doesn't update its formulas it doesn't know how to install the latest versions of software.

Sometimes brew update fails on me because one package doesn't download properly. So you can just upgrade a specific library like this:

brew upgrade node

https://gist.github.com/3005832

Also, try to deactivate the current node version after installing a new node version. It helps me.

nvm deactivate

This is removed /Users/user_name/.nvm/*/bin from $PATH

And after that node was updated

node --version
v10.9.0

If you have installed current node via Homebrew, just use these commands.

brew update
brew upgrade node

Check node version by

node -v

node -v will show you the current version. npm -v will show you the current version. brew link --overwrite --dry-run node will force the link and overwrite all conflicting files. brew install node do a fresh installation. brew update brew upgrade node brew link --overwrite node or brew link node

Node Upgrade Procedure are below

I had to do brew link --overwrite node after brew install node to update from 0.4 to 0.8.18

Try to use "n" the Node extremely simple package manager.

> npm install -g n

Once you have "n" installed. You can pull the latest node by doing the following:

> n latest

I've used it successfully on Ubuntu 16.0x and MacOS 10.12 (Sierra)

Reference: https://github.com/tj/n

Just used this solution with Homebrew 0.9.5 and it seemed like a quick solution to upgrade to the latest stable version of node.

brew update

This will install the latest version

brew install node

Unlink your current version of node use, node -v, to find this

brew unlink node012

This will change to the most up to date version of node.

brew link node

Note: This solution worked as a result of me getting this error:

Error: No such keg: /usr/local/Cellar/node

I did this on Mac OSX Sierra. I had Node 6.1 installed but Puppetter required Node 6.4. This is what I did:

brew upgrade node
brew unlink node
brew link --overwrite node@8
echo 'export PATH="/usr/local/opt/node@8/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.bash_profile

And then open a new terminal window and run:

node -v
v8.11.2

The --overwrite is necessary to override conflicting files between node6 and node8

You can use nodebrew. It can switch node versions too.

if the node is not installed then

brew install node

If you have an older version of the node installed then remove it and re-install freshly that's the only suitable way.

Make sure to add the path in the environment file.

If you're willing to remove the brew dependency, I would recommend nvm - I can't really recommend it over any other versioning solution because I haven't needed to try anything else. Having the ability to switch instantly between versions depending on which project you're working on is pretty valuable.

Just go old skool - https://nodejs.org/en/download/current/ From there you can get the current or LTS versions

sudo n latest

OR

brew update

brew upgrade node

Reference: https://bytearcher.com/articles/ways-to-get-the-latest-node.js-version-on-a-mac/

I tried everything here, but apparently, I had used nvm to install node. So I just ran

nvm deactivate

And then

brew install node
node -v