Hi I'm trying to update node-red-node-email from Node-red's manage pallete section, but it throws error that the module is not installed locally. So after reading forums I found out that I need to see where my module is initially installed and for that I ran the command npm ls -g node-red-node-em…

I wonder if you need to do a remove not uninstall

I'm not sure I undestand you. I just did an uninstall following the doc but actually it doesn't uninstall (probably because it's installed in the node-red path) so I've removed the folder with all the included files manually.

Ahh never mind, remove is an alias of uninstall

Though I've fixed my issue the hard-way (by deletion and altering package.json), I still wonder why isn't it possible to remove node-red-node-email@0.1.29 at first place by issuing the uninstall command? Any feedback on this will be appreciated as I have another machine to update and I don't feel t…

[image] zenofmud: Ahh never mind, remove is an alias of uninstall No, remove is the linux cmd rm (= delete).

[image] waqaslam: I still wonder why isn't it possible to remove node-red-node-email@0.1.29 at first place by issuing the uninstall command Was it not the fact that you had installed two versions and remove took out one but not the other?

I think the original command needs updating - I think it should be cd ~/usr/lib/node_modules/node-red sudo npm uninstall --unsafe-perm node-red-node-email I'll fix the docs

What happens the next time you run the update-nodejs-and-nodered script? I think it will install node-red-node-email@0.1.29 again because of the dependency node-red-node-email": "0.1.* in the package.json

hmmm yes - quicker we get to 0.20 the better.

As @cflurin mentioned, I can confirm that updating node-red brings back the old modules. I experienced this after I individually updated email module to 1.0.1 and then later updated the entire node-red which in a result replaced email module back with 0.1.29

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Was it not the fact that you had installed two versions and remove took out one but not the other?

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