# Move Node Red to a new installation

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/move-node-red-to-a-new-installation/77629>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [16 April 2023 12:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/move-node-red-to-a-new-installation/77629 "2023-04-16T12:45:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![good\_mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71e660/32.png) [@good\_mike](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/good_mike)\
**Post date:** [16 April 2023 12:45 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/move-node-red-to-a-new-installation/77629/1 "2023-04-16T12:45:05Z")

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Hi, I would like to move my existing node red application to a newly deployed bullseye debian version (previously strech). Node Red is running as is and I have also imported the flows.  
What do I have to do now to reinstall the "old" palettes?

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/3X/c/6/c60d4a90e147589c8d632d79139ec9423df0a94c.png)

best regards

good\_mike

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [16 April 2023 13:02 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/move-node-red-to-a-new-installation/77629/2 "2023-04-16T13:02:21Z")

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To move everything to a new system, copy the complete .node-red folder to the new system, except for the node\_modules folder. Then `cd` into the .node-red folder and run  
`npm install`  
which will install all the extra nodes. Then restart node-red.

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**Author:** ![good\_mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71e660/32.png) [@good\_mike](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/good_mike)\
**Post date:** [16 April 2023 15:46 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/move-node-red-to-a-new-installation/77629/3 "2023-04-16T15:46:23Z")

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Vielen Dank für die schnelle Hilfe 😀

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**Author:** ![good\_mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71e660/32.png) [@good\_mike](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/good_mike)\
**Post date:** [29 May 2023 14:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/move-node-red-to-a-new-installation/77629/4 "2023-05-29T14:15:09Z")

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Fortunately, I finally got NodeRed running on the new installation.  
But now I get error messages when updating the palettes: see the attached log file.  
What do I have to do?  
[2023-05-29T14\_09\_13\_935Z-debug-0.log](https://discourse.nodered.org/uploads/short-url/hKpHzjVFd8MkFvpGBFtGHTtQCr6.log) (5.9 KB)

Sorry, but I'm an absolute "Newbi"... 🙂

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [29 May 2023 14:40 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/move-node-red-to-a-new-installation/77629/5 "2023-05-29T14:40:30Z")

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That appears to be a problem with node-red-contrib-ui-led-fork, which says it needs an old version of the dashboard. Why are you using the fork?

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**Author:** ![good\_mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71e660/32.png) [@good\_mike](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/good_mike)\
**Post date:** [29 May 2023 14:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/move-node-red-to-a-new-installation/77629/6 "2023-05-29T14:52:12Z")

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I try to update node-red-contrib-ui-led-fork but it dose not work

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**Author:** ![good\_mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71e660/32.png) [@good\_mike](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/good_mike)\
**Post date:** [29 May 2023 15:10 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/move-node-red-to-a-new-installation/77629/7 "2023-05-29T15:10:23Z")

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THX!! - With this hint, I solved this issue!

- del. all notes with node-red-contrib-ui-led
- uninstall node-red-contrib-ui-led
- reinstall node-red-contrib-ui-led

Perfect!

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**Author:** ![Colin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/colin/32/17040_2.png) [@Colin](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Colin)\
**Post date:** [29 May 2023 15:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/move-node-red-to-a-new-installation/77629/8 "2023-05-29T15:13:13Z")

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> [@good\_mike](#):
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> uninstall node-red-contrib-ui-led

Do you mean you uninstalled node-red-contrib-ui-led-fork and installed node-red-contrib-ui-led?

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**Author:** ![good\_mike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/71e660/32.png) [@good\_mike](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/good_mike)\
**Post date:** [29 May 2023 15:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/move-node-red-to-a-new-installation/77629/9 "2023-05-29T15:15:33Z")

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Yes, that is exactly what I did

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/uploads/nodered/original/1X/d073cd938eafa2e558d7c2cd59003b3ef4963033.png) [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [28 July 2023 15:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/move-node-red-to-a-new-installation/77629/10 "2023-07-28T15:15:34Z")

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