Uninstall Node.JS using Linux command line?
For Ubuntu 12.04:
sudo apt-get remove nodejs
This will uninstall nodejs
as well as npm
.
Edit: If you know which package manager was used to install, it is best to uninstall with the same package manager. Examples for apt
, make
, yum
are in other answers.
This is a manual approach:
Running which node
will return something like /path/bin/node
.
Then run cd /path
This is all that is added by Node.JS.
rm -r bin/node bin/node-waf include/node lib/node lib/pkgconfig/nodejs.pc share/man/man1/node.1
Now the only thing I don't know about is npm and what it has installed. If you install npm again into a custom path that starts off empty, then you can see what it adds and then you will be able to make a list for npm similar to the above list I made for node.