distributions: RHEL/CentOS packages don't update from node 6 to 8 properly (easy fix)

A RHEL/CentOS system with node 6 installed won’t upgrade properly to node 8.

Install node 6 per https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#enterprise-linux-and-fedora
Later, install node 8 per https://nodejs.org/en/download/package-manager/#enterprise-linux-and-fedora

What happens:

yum -y install nodejs still fetches the 6.x version

What should happen

yum -y install nodejs should install node 8

Fix

The scripts should add a yum clean all as the final step. After this, yum -y install nodejs will install node 8

This has happened on each of our main app nodes so we’re pretty confident it can be replicated easily.

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State: closed
Created 7 years ago
Reactions: 11
Comments: 22 (1 by maintainers)

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It did not work for me either. The last command I tried was rm -rf /var/cache/yum as root and that seemed to have done the trick. This was after doing this: (I can’t remember the exact order or which commands were significant):

/bin/rm -rf /var/cache/yum
/usr/bin/yum remove -y nodejs
/bin/rm /etc/yum.repos.d/nodesource*
/usr/bin/yum clean all
/usr/bin/curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | bash -

+131

tedeh on Apr 16, 2018

Had to remove the /etc/yum.repos.d/nodesource-el.repo since the script is creating /etc/yum.repos.d/nodesource-el6.repo

lkappeler on Nov 28, 2017

It did not work for me either. The last command I tried was rm -rf /var/cache/yum as root and that seemed to have done the trick. This was after doing this: (I can’t remember the exact order or which commands were significant):
/bin/rm -rf /var/cache/yum
/usr/bin/yum remove -y nodejs
/bin/rm /etc/yum.repos.d/nodesource*
/usr/bin/yum clean all
/usr/bin/curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | bash -

Thanks alot. This solved my issue.

pradipshenolkar on Feb 19, 2019

Was this closed because it’s fixed? Happened to me in CentOS…

IdanAdar on Apr 11, 2018

simply running yum remove -y nodejs was sufficient in my case.

bbnplace on May 6, 2018

For me, it works after using “/bin/rm /etc/yum.repos.d/nodesource*”

kyyung on May 6, 2018

@chrislea Looks like this issue is not resolved… I think this issue should be reopened (don’t know why it was closed)

vkotovv on May 28, 2019

It did not work for me either. The last command I tried was rm -rf /var/cache/yum as root and that seemed to have done the trick. This was after doing this: (I can’t remember the exact order or which commands were significant):
/bin/rm -rf /var/cache/yum
/usr/bin/yum remove -y nodejs
/bin/rm /etc/yum.repos.d/nodesource*
/usr/bin/yum clean all
/usr/bin/curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | bash -

Thank you @tedeh It was solved this way.

mertasan on Sep 29, 2018