# Re-install node-red-dashboard
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/re-install-node-red-dashboard/27992
**Category:** Dashboard
**Created:** [8 June 2020 13:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/re-install-node-red-dashboard/27992 "2020-06-08T13:24:33Z")
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### Author:  [@tfmeier](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/tfmeier)
#### Post date: [8 June 2020 13:24 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/re-install-node-red-dashboard/27992/1 "2020-06-08T13:24:33Z")
I'm trying to re-install node-red-dashboard as the artless gauge node didn't show on the ui and I just started to explore the idea of a home automation dashboard on Node-RED so not much "production code" yet.
Have removed all nodes relating to node-red-dashboard but when I go to the palette manager it says node-red-dashboard "in use" and no option to re-install or remove. Do I have to disable all nodes first before I can continue?
How do I get out of this dead end?
FYI, Node-RED is running on IBM Cloud
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### Author:  [@dceejay](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/dceejay)
#### Post date: [8 June 2020 15:36 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/re-install-node-red-dashboard/27992/2 "2020-06-08T15:36:58Z")
there are probably some config nodes still being used - see Menu - configuration nodes etc... - you have to delete them first...
OR - you can just install manually outside of Node-RED. cd to your user dir - usually ~/.node-red and run npm install node-red-dashboard@latest - then stop and restart Node-RED.
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### Author:  [@tfmeier](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/tfmeier)
#### Post date: [9 June 2020 00:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/re-install-node-red-dashboard/27992/3 "2020-06-09T00:14:48Z")
That worked, thanks. Wasn't aware of this configuration node function to check what's used
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [23 June 2020 00:14 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/re-install-node-red-dashboard/27992/4 "2020-06-23T00:14:48Z")
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