How to upgrade Appium 1.5.3 to Appium 1.8.1
There are two different types of appium tool avaliable
- Appium GUI
- Appium command tool
It seems you updated to the command tool of appium and launch the appium GUI then you are checking the version.
Till now there is no GUI for appium1.6.
If you are checking command tool then there is some issue, you need to uninstall and install appium.
You can do
1. npm uninstall -g appium
2. npm install -g [email protected]
3. appium -v
@is for specific version
Appium 1.8.1
If you have an old version of Appium server than you can update it without uninstalling it by executing following command in terminal or command prompt
npm -g update appium
This will update your Appium version to the latest version.
In case you want to update to a specific version than execute the following command:
npm update -g [email protected]