How can install a new version of NPM ( 1.1.24 )?

Question

I want to install the latest stable version of node - Version 0.6.19 (stable).

http://blog.nodejs.org/ indicates to upgrade to NPM to 1.1.24

Is there a simple way to upgrade to this? I can't figure out how exactly to download and target this version.

The below gives me npm -v 1.0.106

npm upgrade npm

or

npm upgrade npm 1.1.24

Answer 1

Update 2 (03/11/15)

Courtesy: whyleee

On Windows npm is installed together with node in "Program Files". Use npm install npm -g to install it in "%AppData%\npm" and delete 'npm', 'npm.cmd' files from "C:\Program Files\nodejs" dir (because your PATH is looking there first). After that you can use npm update npm -g in the future

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According to the docs

For windows (it also worked on Mac for me)

To update npm, run the npm update npm -g command.

Also verify this

Hope this helps

Answer 2

The only thing that worked for me was (from npm readme)

Fancy Windows Install

You can download a zip file from https://npmjs.org/dist/, and unpack it in the same folder where node.exe lives.

In my case folder is :

C:\Program Files (x86)\nodejs

Edit: It seams that newer versions of npm does not exist on address I wrote. I will copy paste instructions from npm git page

You can download a zip file from https://npmjs.org/dist/, and unpack it in the same folder where node.exe lives.

The latest version in a zip file is 1.4.12. To upgrade to npm 2, follow the Windows upgrade instructions in the npm Troubleshooting Guide:

https://github.com/npm/npm/wiki/Troubleshooting#upgrading-on-windows

If that's not fancy enough for you, then you can fetch the code with git, and mess with it directly.