Uninstall Node.JS using Linux command line?

Question

In Ubuntu 12.04 simply type this

$ sudo apt-get remove nodejs

It will uninstall nodejs and npm as well simple.

Edit: If you know which package manager was used to install, it is best to uninstall with the same package manager. Examples for apt, make, yum are in other answers.

This is a manual approach:

Running which node will return something like /path/bin/node.

Then run cd /path

This is all that is added by Node.JS.

rm -r bin/node bin/node-waf include/node lib/node lib/pkgconfig/nodejs.pc share/man/man1/node.1

Now the only thing I don't know about is npm and what it has installed. If you install npm again into a custom path that starts off empty, then you can see what it adds and then you will be able to make a list for npm similar to the above list I made for node.

If you installed from source, you can issue the following command:

sudo make uninstall

If you followed the instructions on https://github.com/nodejs/node/wiki to install to your $HOME/local/node, then you have to type the following before the line above:

./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/node

Sorry the answer of George Bailey does work very fine when you want absolutely remove the node from your machine.

This answer is referred from : @tedeh https://github.com/nodesource/distributions/issues/486

If you wanna install a new version of node you have to use the code below

sudo rm -rf /var/cache/yum
sudo yum remove -y nodejs
sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/nodesource*
sudo yum clean all

And add new nodejs version to "yum" an new version of node

#using this command for Node version 8
curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_8.x | sudo bash -

#using this command for Node version 10
curl --silent --location https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo bash -

Install nodejs

sudo yum -y install nodejs

I hope it gonna help you guy!!!

To uninstall node I followed the accepted answer by @George, as I no longer have the sources, but before doing so I ran:

sudo npm rm npm -g

That seemed to get rid of npm from the system directories such as /usr/bin/npm and /usr/lib/npm. I got the command from here. I then found a ~/.npm directory, which I deleted manually. Honestly I don't know if every trace of npm has been removed, but I can't find anything else.