Angular downgrade from version 5 to 4

Question

i want to create angular 4 project instead of 5. my angular cli version 1.5.0 when i run this command to downgrade the version to angular cli 4

npm install -g [email protected]

I get the error

npm ERR! code ETARGET
npm ERR! notarget No matching version found for [email protected]

Answer 1

If you want to install this specific version of the angular cli you have to use this command:

npm install -g @angular/[email protected]

Perhaps you have another version currently installed on your system you should read this also.