Uninstalling n on OSX

[mdanetzky]

I'm using MacOS Sierra and n 2.1.4 installed using homebrew. To have a clean uninstall I need to remove all installed versions of node. I can't do that, because n rm tells me that

Error: cannot remove currently active version

It would be great do have an option to deactivate n (just like in nvm).

[troy0820]

Could you use the template so I can understand where everything is? I honestly wouldn't use brew to install n, as it's not in the documentation. Brew installs in /usr/local/Cellar and symlinks it.

[mdanetzky]

I used:

brew install n

Unfortunately every npm execution needs elevated privileges - which is the reason why I want to remove it. Nonetheless I can imagine, that a functionality to deactivate n might be useful in other scenarios too. For example while switching between various installations.

PS. I just used sudo rm to remove everything that resembled node, npm or node_modules from my system.

[troy0820]

Uninstall with brew and try to install n with the preferred method in the readme. If you don't own the directory where n installs, you will either have to chown them or run sudo everytime you run it.