Mac OS X uninstall script for packaged install of node.js from https://stackoverflow.com/a/9287292/23056

README.md

To run this, you can try:

curl -ksO https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nicerobot/2697848/raw/uninstall-node.sh
chmod +x ./uninstall-node.sh
./uninstall-node.sh
rm uninstall-node.sh

uninstall-node.sh

#!/bin/sh
(( ${#} > 0 )) || {
  echo 'DISCLAIMER: USE THIS SCRIPT AT YOUR OWN RISK!'
  echo 'THE AUTHOR TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE RESULTS OF THIS SCRIPT.'
  echo "Disclaimer aside, this worked for the author, for what that's worth."
  echo 'Press Control-C to quit now.'
  read
  echo 'Re-running the script with sudo.'
  echo 'You may be prompted for a password.'
  sudo ${0} sudo
  exit $?
}
# This will need to be executed as an Admin (maybe just use sudo).

for bom in org.nodejs.node.pkg.bom org.nodejs.pkg.bom; do

  receipt=/var/db/receipts/${bom}
  [ -e ${receipt} ] && {
    # Loop through all the files in the bom.
    lsbom -f -l -s -pf ${receipt} \
    | while read i; do
      # Remove each file listed in the bom.
      rm -v /usr/local/${i#/usr/local/}
    done
  }

done

# Remove directories related to node.js.
rm -vrf /usr/local/lib/node \
  /usr/local/lib/node_modules \
  /var/db/receipts/org.nodejs.*

exit 0

Thanks!!

Thank you I am using NodeJS package from the official website in El Capitan, then I run the script and everything seems fine.

Works like charm!
The alternative worked for me on El Capitan:

curl -ksO https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nicerobot/2697848/raw/uninstall-node.sh
chmod +x ./uninstall-node.sh
./uninstall-node.sh
rm uninstall-node.sh

How about virtualising Node.js within Docker in the first place? Right now, Docker appears to be targeted towards builds and production, but IMHO it's a perfect tool to distribute, customise and share developer environments as well. I took a first (quite humble - I'm a newbie to both Docker and Node.js) approach at https://blog.saddey.net/2016/07/03/using-docker-to-create-ionic-2-pwa-developer-environment/ Does this make any sense?

@doncadavona's solution worked like a charm.

@doncadavona's comment worked! Thanks for this gist! 😄

the screen is frozen, im trying to uninstall node js from my computer and reinstall it wt homebrew..any help will be appreciated. i have os x el capitan.

Thanks!

Sweet thank you!

I didn't try
curl -ks https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nicerobot/2697848/raw/uninstall-node.sh | bash

But the alternative way worked for me on macOS Sierra (10.12.4) to uninstall Node v7.9.0.

Thank you @nicerobot!

great!
try node -v after and No such file or directory ;)

thanks.. Great

I second the "Alternative" route. It works perfectly for El Capitan. Thanks!

Try with curl, no luck:

$ curl -ks https://gist.githubusercontent.com/nicerobot/2697848/raw/uninstall-node.sh | bash
DISCLAIMER: USE THIS SCRIPT AT YOUR OWN RISK!
THE AUTHOR TAKES NO RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE RESULTS OF THIS SCRIPT.
Disclaimer aside, this worked for the author, for what that's worth.
Press Control-C to quit now.
Re-running the script with sudo.
You may be prompted for a password.
Password:
/usr/bin/sudo: /usr/bin/sudo: cannot execute binary file

I also got sudo: cannot execute binary file and suspect it relates to the sudo sudo call (sudo itself runs, except when being run by sudo?)

I'm on Mac OS X High Sierra v10.13 using NodeJS v6.11.5 LTS installed with package from the official site.
I downloaded the script and then just run:

sudo ./uninstall-node.sh

And it works fine!

Worked fine on the High Sierra v10.13.1 thanks alot!

Worked for El Capitan v10.11.16. Thank you!

works fine

I removed the curl version. It won't work and results in the sudo sudo problem mentioned above. @xxd3vin @samj

Worked fine in OS X El Capitan v10.11.6. Thank you :)

This gist is referenced by this SO post, if you run into problems: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35249204/node-already-installed-its-just-not-linked

Thanks for the script. In addition to the script, I also had to remove /usr/local/bin/node

Script works fine for me after changing line 23 from

# this tries to delete /usr/local/./usr/local/.....
rm -v /usr/local/${i}

to

# this works fine :)
rm -v ${i:1}

Mac OS Mojave 10.14.6

macOS Big Sur 11.1

I had to manually delete these after:

• /usr/local/bin/node
• /usr/local/bin/npm
• /usr/local/bin/npx

Aside from that, seems to have done the trick.

It seems that lsbom (now?) outputs paths beginning with ./usr/local/ rather than /usr/local/. Therefore, line 23 needs to be adjusted:

-      rm -v /usr/local/${i#/usr/local/}
+      rm -v /usr/local/${i#./usr/local/}

Indeed, it looks like they changed the output. That's unfortunate.

You can use my forked gist:
https://gist.github.com/ryangatchalian912/75c6894c3f3143fef366d25eb63437ab

Copy and paste these commands into your Terminal:

curl -ksO https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ryangatchalian912/75c6894c3f3143fef366d25eb63437ab/raw/9345866b0f3d0bb0ab1bebbe721a811f15a2adbe/uninstall-node.sh
chmod +x ./uninstall-node.sh
sudo ./uninstall-node.sh
rm uninstall-node.sh

It works on Mac OSX Big Sur (11.4).

after running the script first time i ran node -v command which gave following output:

(base) jaikishansharma@Jaikishans-MacBook-Air ~ % node -v
v16.10.0

and when i ran this script again it gave following output:

(base) jaikishansharma@Jaikishans-MacBook-Air ~ % curl -ksO https://gist.githubusercontent.com/ryangatchalian912/75c6894c3f3143fef366d25eb63437ab/raw/9345866b0f3d0bb0ab1bebbe721a811f15a2adbe/uninstall-node.sh
chmod +x ./uninstall-node.sh
sudo ./uninstall-node.sh
rm uninstall-node.sh
Password:

Node.js not found. Nothing to do.
can anyone explain how node -v still indicate that node.js is still installed on my mac

@jk62 There are multiple ways to install Node.js these days. This script was created to uninstall the MacOS package installer version of Node.js. If you install using brew or nvm or some other package/version manager like that, this script isn't useful. To know whether this script makes sense, try the following to give a clue of how it was installed:

which node