Yarn: Can't remove global packages

[soredake]

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?
bug

What is the current behavior?

$ yarn global remove jpm
yarn global v0.17.3
[1/2] Removing module jpm...
error This module isn't specified in a manifest.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/global for documentation about this command.

If the current behavior is a bug, please provide the steps to reproduce.
yarn global add jpm
yarn global remove jpm

What is the expected behavior?
Successfully removed global package.

Please mention your node.js, yarn and operating system version.
yarn v0.17.3

[iredchuk]

Works for me with yarn 0.17.4, node 7.1.0 and macOS 10.12.1

[soredake]

Still can't in 0.19.0.

[GYK90]

it works for me with Windows 10 and yarn 0.18.1

[Murphydbuffalo]

Doesn't work for me on 0.20.3, running Ubuntu 14.04, Node 6.2.1

[DiederikvandenB]

I have the same issue, macOS, everything updated.

[DominoPivot]

Same issue running yarn 0.21.3 on node v7.7.2 on the linux subsystem for Windows 10.

[soredake]

I can remove the global package on 0.21.3 if i do cd ~/.config/yarn/global.

[MangiDu]

maybe another package is dependent on the one you want to remove. I got a same situation when yarn global remove docsify,then I found docsify-cli was dependent on docsify, it worked when I do yarn global remove docsify-cli.

[DaniGuardiola]

In my case the module had a scope, so although the binary has the same name as the package, yarn global remove module didn't work, because I had to put the scope in it, like this: yarn global remove @scope/module. Just like when installing (yarn global add @scope/module).

[brunolemos]

I just had this problem, turns out it was something wrong with the yarn global manifest. I was able to delete all other modules, so my manifest got empty and now it's fixed.

[Ayanrocks]

Did it fixed. Running on ubuntu 16.04. I got this error

yarn global remove live-server
yarn global v1.6.0
[1/2] Removing module live-server...
error This module isn't specified in a manifest.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/global for documentation about this command.

[vintprox]

It still requires to have dependency specified in the manifest to remove global one.

yarn v1.7.0

[EzeBernardine]

my is not working
node 8.11.2
yarn 1.7.0
OS linux

[hrldcpr]

I encountered this error, and it was due to the executable having a different name than the module.

Specifically, yarn global remove parcel failed but yarn global remove parcel-bundler worked.

[bodazhao]

I had the following errors when I tried to remove google cloud functions emulator from yarn global:

info "@google-cloud/[email protected]" has binaries:
   - functions
   - functions-emulator

In this case, I wasn't sure which <NAME> I should put into yarn global remove <NAME>.

So I just looked up at the getting started instructions on how to add it in the first place, which is yarn global add @google-cloud/functions-emulator, then it's becomes clear that yarn global remove @google-cloud/functions-emulator is the right solution, and it worked.

Although I have to say it was unclear to get this right immediately from the yarn error messages.

[xiaodeaux]

Still having this error.

yarn global list
yarn global v1.12.3
info "@vue/[email protected]" has binaries:
   - vue
Done in 0.80s.

yarn global remove @vue/cli@latest
yarn global v1.12.3
[1/2] Removing module @vue/cli@latest...
error This module isn't specified in a package.json file.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/global for documentation about this command.

EDIT
The solution seems to be to remove the @latest or @[Whatever version is installed] from the package name.

[WuglyakBolgoink]

@xiaodeaux doesn't work on me:

1)

$ yarn global list                                                                                                                                                                               

Output:

yarn global v1.15.2
info "[email protected]" has binaries:
   - ts-node
✨  Done in 0.09s.

2) Remove with version

$ sudo yarn global remove [email protected] --force

Output:

yarn global v1.15.2
[1/2] 🗑  Removing module [email protected]...
error This module isn't specified in a package.json file.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/global for documentation about this command.

3) Remove without version

$ sudo yarn global remove ts-node --force                                                                                                                                                       

Output:

yarn global v1.15.2
[1/2] 🗑  Removing module ts-node...
error This module isn't specified in a package.json file.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/global for documentation about this command.

[hrldcpr]

@WuglyakBolgoink have you tried running the remove command without sudo?

Might not help, but sometimes commands run under sudo receive different environment variables, so might be worth a shot…

(You can also try running the list command with sudo as another bit of debugging)

[tuomohopia]

I'm experiencing this too on WIN10, yarn v.1.15.2.

Error message:

yarn global v1.15.2
[1/2] Removing module detox...
error This module isn't specified in a package.json file.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/global for documentation about this command.

[hrldcpr]

@tuomohopia just a guess but have you tried removing detox-cli instead?

[tuomohopia]

@hrldcpr yes, absolutely right, how silly of me to trip on that.
Thanks!

[bucketclan]

I still feel the error message could be improved.

[chpio]

yeah it's just a bad error message.

I tried removing discify (yarn global remove discify) and got the message. But the actual package name of discify is disc. Using the real package name worked as intended :D

[deepakaggarwal7]

I'm experiencing this too on WIN10, yarn v.1.15.2.

Error message:

yarn global v1.15.2
[1/2] Removing module detox...
error This module isn't specified in a package.json file.
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/global for documentation about this command.

add sudo behind command and it should work
sudo yarn global remove detox --force