Module ignored due to local copy

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Updated Node Red to v3.1.0 and found a problem with the dark mode theme I have used forever looking wrong. Example below, the background is now white instead of dark same as the palette:
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I'm using Node Red in a Docker container and this is the theme:

No longer supported.

Node Red logs show this problem so it looks like I'm running an older version, how can I fix that please?

1 Nov 19:20:26 - [debug] Module: @node-red-contrib-themes/midnight-red 1.5.2 /data/node_modules/@node-red-contrib-themes/midnight-red
1 Nov 19:20:26 - [debug] ! Module: @node-red-contrib-themes/midnight-red 2.2.3 /usr/src/node-red/node_modules/@node-red-contrib-themes/midnight-red *ignored due to local copy*

Here's the end of my settings.js file which does not match the new format, but I think I need to make sure I'm using 2.2.3 first before changing.

 // Customising the editor
    editorTheme: {
        projects: {
            // To enable the Projects feature, set this value to true
            enabled: false
        },
        page: {
            css: "/usr/src/node-red/node_modules/@node-red-contrib-themes/midnight-red/theme.css"
        }

Or maybe Node Red already supports dark mode nowadays and I don't need the theme at all?

I'm not that up to date due to life and don't really want to break anything just now if that makes sense.

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You have one version installed locally as is correct. But you have the other, newer version installed globally. Remove the global version and update the local version.

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Thank you.
But strange, I can't see the files installed globally:

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I have only ever used Node Red in Docker container, of course I may have fudged up somewhere when installing the package.

Here's how I installed the theme:
Enter Portainer, choose Node Red, and enter terminal.
Run npm install @node-red-contrib-themes/midnight-red
Exit terminal and restart container.

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I don't use Docker for Node-RED but I think from inside Dockers command line, you would need to:

cd /data
npm install @node-red-contrib-themes/midnight-red
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Seemed to have got it sorted now thanks for the tips. Info below for any searching the same issue.

Note - all of this is within the Docker container

Seems the one newer copy was installed in /usr/src/node-red and the older copy in /data, must have been my error.

So I npm uninstall 'd both from the respective directories, and installed the newer supported theme package in /data directory with npm install @node-red-contrib-themes/theme-collection.

Then updated my settings.js to read as per the new usage.

Restarted the container and all is good! :slight_smile:

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