[BUG] NPM not properly installed using hombrew about cli

[ljharb]

node isn’t officially distributed through homebrew, and npm comes with node and generally isn’t installed separately. Have you tried another way to install node?

[chenrui333]

I have installed NPM and Node with homebrew, and for whatever reason my version of NPM is stuck a 10.3.0. When I run sudo npm i -g npm@latest, it installs the new version /usr/local/lib/node_modules/lib/node_modules/npm, but remains linked to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm. Any ideas?

👋 homebrew maintainer in here, I believe this is more of a PATH issue, which you can finding out with which node.

$ brew install -s node
Warning: node 21.7.1 is already installed and up-to-date.
To reinstall 21.7.1, run:
  brew reinstall node
  
$ export PATH="/opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/21.7.1/bin/:$PATH"
$

$ npm -v
npm verb cli /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/21.7.1/bin/node /opt/homebrew/Cellar/node/21.7.1/bin/npm
npm info using [email protected]
npm info using [email protected]
npm verb title npm
npm verb argv "--version"
npm verb logfile logs-max:10 dir:/Users/rui/.npm/_logs/2024-03-18T20_43_18_699Z-
npm verb logfile /Users/rui/.npm/_logs/2024-03-18T20_43_18_699Z-debug-0.log
10.5.0
npm verb exit 0
npm info ok

[chenrui333]

Also feel free to submit an issue in the homebrew-core, https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues

[milaninfy]

Closing as this does not look like npm issue. If this is still a problem please feel free to reopen this issue, or create a new issue w/ steps to reproduce.