Why `npm update -g` is not updating my global packages to the latest version?

Question

I'm following steps from updating global packages, so I executed npm outdated -g --depth=0 and got:

Package     Current  Wanted  Latest  Location typescript    2.2.2   2.2.2   2.4.1 

Then, I executed npm update -g, but I still got the same output from npm outdated -g --depth=0.

Executing npm list -g --depth=0 also confirms that the typescript package has not been updated to 2.4.1:

+-- [email protected] +-- [email protected] +-- [email protected] `-- [email protected] 

What am I missing?

Answer 1

You will have to either use this script or do them one by one it seems.

This global update is a known breaking point. Here is the reference to this issue. They seem to have closed it without addressing the issue