Simple command to switch back to the system installation of Node

[00dani]

Currently once you use n, you're stuck with n-installed versions of Node unless you go through and remove its binaries from your PATH manually. However, you'll almost invariably have a version of Node installed systemwide, using your distribution's package manager, since you need Node running to start using n.

There should be a command - say, n system - to have n clear its Node binary out of your PATH so that the systemwide Node becomes active once more.

[shadowspawn]

For interest, is this effectively to do an uninstall of n and the binaries it installed, or to allow switching back and forth between system and n managed versions?

[00dani]

Both, really? I think the latter should be supported without effectively uninstalling n itself in the process, to ensure it's easy to restore an n-managed version later on, but n should also be easy to uninstall if that becomes necessary.

[davej]

See #173.

[shadowspawn]

Similar suggestion to #477

[shadowspawn]

There isn't always a system installed node, and the notion of "switching" to the system installed node is not a good match for effectively deleting the non-system installed version. However, there is a suggestion to add an uninstall option in #540 which readers could subscribe to for updates and/or give a 👍 if it is of interest.

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[shadowspawn]

n uninstall has been added in v4.1.0. It deletes node and npm from the install destination (N_PREFIX or /usr/local). It does not affect the cached downloaded versions.