# I messed up installation

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**Created:** [27 September 2019 08:18 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/i-messed-up-installation/15982 "2019-09-27T08:18:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![cymplecy](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/cymplecy/32/2773_2.png) [@cymplecy](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/cymplecy)\
**Post date:** [2 October 2019 06:33 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/i-messed-up-installation/15982/26 "2019-10-02T06:33:32Z")

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Just as aside - I had a problem with a Node-RED install on one of Pi - couldn't seem to sort it

So I used this

> [@New Utility: alternate-node-red-installer](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/new-utility-alternate-node-red-installer/13490):
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> Hi all, as I'm needing to install some clean installations of Node-RED for testing, I thought that I would finally get round to writing a proper tool for installing multiple independent instances of Node-RED. I've just finished that off and published to GitHub and npm so you should be able to use it straight away if you have a need for such a thing. It gives you a command-line installer that takes a single parameter controlling the root folder for installation. It should work on all platforms. …

to create a separate running instance (changed port to 1881 in settings.js so it didn't conflict with original ) and got my flows working in it

I then eventually sorted the original one later on

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