N: Unable to switch versions of Node.

[hzhu]

I'm trying to switch Node versions on my system like the gify demo: https://github.com/tj/n#user-content-n
But when I hit enter on a selected version, and type node --version the version didn't change. Can anyone help?...

[maxrimue]

My guess is that the account you use doesn't have write permissions for /usr/local/n, what happens if you instead use sudo n and then change the version?

[Hesesses]

+1

[hzhu]

hi @maxrimue , I still get the same problem. The version doesn't change.

[maxrimue]

Have you changed the N_PREFIX so n downloads Node.js somewhere else than
/usr/bin/? Or have you installed Node.js with another package manager like
homebrew?
Henry Zhu [email protected] schrieb am Di., 14. Juli 2015 um 00:51:

hi @maxrimue https://github.com/maxrimue , I still get the same
problem. The version doesn't change.
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[troy0820]

If you used nvm, they go into ~/.nvm folder and this may be the reason your switch isn't working as well.

[hzhu]

I apparently used Boxen a long time ago, so which node tells me /opt/boxen/nodenv/shims/node.

I tired export N_PREFIX=/opt/boxen/nodenv/ but that still didn't work. Any ideas how to make fix this issue?

[maxrimue]

You'll have to remove Boxen, or at least the Node.js it installed. I'm not sure how you would remove just Node.js from Boxen, but I found that this is how you remove Boxen itself:

Run script/nuke from inside the /opt/boxen/repo directory.
(boxen/boxen#86)

[hzhu]

Thank you @maxrimue! Removing Boxen did the trick.

[wpcarro]

Thanks @maxrimue about using sudo. I feel like it would be a much better UX if n warned about permissions issues instead of silently failing to switch versions.

My issue was a permissions issues. The problem is, I'm unsure how it ended up this way anyways. I installed n using:

curl -sL https://git.io/n-install | bash -s -- -q