# Node-RED installation on Apple M1 computer
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-on-apple-m1-computer/56305
**Category:** General
**Created:** [8 January 2022 13:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-on-apple-m1-computer/56305 "2022-01-08T13:52:43Z")
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### Author:  [@KarlAlois](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/KarlAlois)
#### Post date: [8 January 2022 13:52 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-on-apple-m1-computer/56305/1 "2022-01-08T13:52:43Z")
Hi Node-RED users,
I just moved from an old Mac mini to the M1 Mac mini 2020 by doing a Time Machine restore using the backup of the old Mac mini. I realize that by doing so, I have transferred a lot of intel code, but thanks to Rosetta everything appears to be working. I can connect with an external browser to Node-RED and everything looks good to the point that I do not know how to stop/start Node-RED via the terminal.
When I enter "node-red-stop" it comes back with "zsh: command not found: node-red-stop".
The terminal has now changed from bash to zsh and obviously tries to find Node-RED at a different location from where it was on my old Intel Mac mini.
"which node-red" returns "/usr/local/bin/node-red".
After already spending far too much time getting homebrew and influxdb@1 installed for M1 native code, I thought I better ask the community whether I should also try to upgrade node.js + Node-RED and if so whether there are online instructions on how to do it. I could not find any.
Should I decide to stay with the intel code, I guess I need to modify .zprofile and/or .zshrc in order to be able to do node-red-stop/-start/-log? but how?
thank you for your help,
greetings from freezing Bavaria
Karl
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### Author:  [@zenofmud](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/zenofmud)
#### Post date: [8 January 2022 14:01 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-on-apple-m1-computer/56305/2 "2022-01-08T14:01:56Z")
I run NR on my mac mini M1 with no issues and NR is installed in the same place.
```auto
Paul@PaulsM1 ~ % which node-red
/usr/local/bin/node-red
Paul@PaulsM1 ~ %
```
I don't believe you can use node-red-start and node-red-stop on the mac. I just open a terminal and use `node-red` and leave the terminal window open.
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### Author:  [@KarlAlois](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/KarlAlois)
#### Post date: [8 January 2022 18:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-on-apple-m1-computer/56305/3 "2022-01-08T18:12:31Z")
thanks zenofmud,
you are right, i confused it with my other node-red raspberry pi installations and forgot that on my Mac mini I had installed PM2 as outlined in [Starting Node-RED on boot : Node-RED](https://nodered.org/docs/faq/starting-node-red-on-boot)
so I can stop/start with "pm2 stop node-red" and "pm2 start node-red"
This leaves my question open whether it would be beneficial to upgrade node.js + node-red to M1 native code.
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### Author:  [@hardillb](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hardillb)
#### Post date: [8 January 2022 19:26 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-on-apple-m1-computer/56305/4 "2022-01-08T19:26:56Z")
If you move to the ARM build of NodeJS you can rebuild any native components of the installed nodes by running `npm rebuild` in the Node-RED userDir (normally `~/.node-red` but logged at startup)
You would also want to re-run `sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm node-red` to make sure that things like bcrypt get rebuilt as well for best performance as well as any of the other core components.
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### Author:  [@KarlAlois](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/KarlAlois)
#### Post date: [8 January 2022 20:59 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-on-apple-m1-computer/56305/5 "2022-01-08T20:59:07Z")
thanks hardillb,
would you say, that it will be worth the trouble to move to the ARM build of NodeJS?
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### Author:  [@hardillb](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/hardillb)
#### Post date: [8 January 2022 21:11 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-on-apple-m1-computer/56305/6 "2022-01-08T21:11:21Z")
Running a native build is always going to be quicker than a transpiled or emulated version.
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [9 March 2022 21:12 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-installation-on-apple-m1-computer/56305/7 "2022-03-09T21:12:06Z")
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