# Major Issue updating Node and Node Red

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/major-issue-updating-node-and-node-red/1516>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [11 July 2018 15:19 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/major-issue-updating-node-and-node-red/1516 "2018-07-11T15:19:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![dceejay](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/dceejay/32/38_2.png) [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)\
**Post date:** [6 March 2019 21:57 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/major-issue-updating-node-and-node-red/1516/37 "2019-03-06T21:57:17Z")

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by deleting the apt sources it has fallen back to the default debian install which is 8.11 - yuk... I would `apt-get purge nodejs` - then check that the `/etc/apt/sources.list.d/` directory still does not contain `nodesource.list`, then run `sudo apt-get update` to refresh the sources. And then retry our install script.

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