How to uninstall CLI version 3.9.1?

[michalkolek]

Was getting gulpInst.start.apply(gulpInst, toRun); so upon checking on here and SO I found out I needed to get rid of 3.9.1..

Seems like I cant uninstall CLI version 3.9.1 that I presume is installed globally.

What I have tried is:

npm rm -g gulp-cli@3.9.1 npm rm -g gulp-cli npm uninstall -g gulp-cli@3.9.1 npm rm -g gulp npm uninstall -g gulp-cli npm uninstall -g gulp

I tried above commands also for local (with -D flag) and made sure there was no gulp-cli folder in npm_modules.

When I run npm list gulp-cli i get -- (empty) When I run gulp -v I still get

[09:44:12] CLI version 3.9.1

[michalkolek]

I solved it. Still don't know what caused it though.

Just went to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\npm and deleted everything inside that was related to gulp.

Also deleted content of cache folder in the same location.

And deleted package-lock.json in the project folder.

From that I followed documentation: npm install gulp-cli -g npm install gulp -D

Now works fine.

[phated]

These issues are always some sort of local environment configuration. I'm glad you got it figured out!

[Jones-S]

Does anyone know where i have to delete the files on a mac? I use Node version manager. I thought I could just use $ npm list -g to get the installed packages and where they are saved. It gives me something like /Users/****/.nvm/versions/node/v10.16.0/lib

I went there and delete both gulp and gulp-cli directory.

Still when $ gulp -v I get [18:21:44] CLI version 3.9.1.

I thought maybe I had a global yarn install but using $ yarn list --pattern gulp does get me:

yarn list v1.3.2
├─ gulp-cli@2.2.0
├─ gulp-exec@4.0.0
└─ gulplog@1.0.0
✨  Done in 0.88s.

So not the unwanted 3.9.1 (BTW: gulp 4 uses gulp-cli 2.2.0, why is there even a 3.9.1??? It is all so confusing).

Then when trying to uninstall all yarn related gulp stuff I run $ yarn global dir. But when going there the node_modules folder does not include any gulp related stuff and the package.json does not include any gulp packages either...

Where the hell is this gulp-cli 3.9.1. I am so clueless.

Thanks for any pointers!

[Jones-S]

I solved it by finding a stray gulp installation within /usr/local/lib/node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js No idea why it was there.. 🤷‍♂

[chriscoyier]

I'm 100% confused by this too. I also have CLI version 3.9.0 and seemingly no amount of un-installing things will remove it, thus Gulp 4 totally fails.

[crisgaret]

@chriscoyier I hope this helps. I was able to get my CLI version 3.9.0 to switch to 2.2.0. This worked for me, not 100% it will work in another environment, but I thought I would share. I spent way to many hours today searching this problem. [I recommend you keep all the files you delete below in case you need to put them back]

DELETE FOLDER: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/gulp/ (I originally deleted all the folders in node_modules, but I think gulp is the only one that needs to be deleted.)

DELETE FILE: /usr/local/bin/gulp

DELETE FOLDER: /Users/<username>/.npm

Additional folders you may need to delete /Users/<username>/.cache /Users/<username>/.npm-global

After that you'll need to install node/npm (I am using node v10.15.3 so I can use a gulp build local version 3.9 and local 4.0 concurrently), and run npm install --global gulp-cli as directed on the gulp install page, I may have ran sudo npm install --global gulp-cli But that is not recommended https://gulpjs.com/docs/en/getting-started/quick-start

[chriscoyier]

@crisgaret After all that, and the final moment....

Aw snap. Same too-high version.

[crisgaret]

@crisgaret After all that, and the final moment....

Aw snap. Same too-high version.

Man, that sucks. I wish I knew more about the npm system to help you. I would just dig around in all the hidden usr/lib/bin folders I could find, and delete everything related to npm/gulp, also any .npm or .node type folders in your folder. But that is horrible advice. Good luck, hopefully it doesn't take you another year....

[terinjokes]

We're not doing anything different here.

@chriscoyier Are your running /usr/local/bin/gulp or something else? What is the output of command -v gulp?

[chriscoyier]

ip-192-168-1-169:~ chriscoyier$ command -v gulp
/usr/local/share/npm/bin/gulp

Looks like a weird location??

[kmcaloon]

Thanks @terinjokes. Running command -v gulp then deleting it from the resulting directory worked for me. This was sheer maddening.

[terinjokes]

It's one of the locations npm installed things to. Think it comes down to how node/npm was installed. You may also have multiple npm binaries installed, and have gulp installed by different ones over time.

[kmcaloon]

Ran into something in case someone has a similar issue. After following @terinjokes recommendation above, deleting the gulp directory, reinstalling the cli globally and then gulp in my project, I kept getting gulp: command not found. Found this, added gulp to my scripts in package.json, then ran npm run gulp and the magic happened. If upgrading from gulp 3 there will probably be some other issues but they will be much easier to deal with than this was.

[chriscoyier]

I deleted the one at /usr/local/share/npm/bin/gulp which I found via command -v gulp and low and behold:

$ gulp -v
CLI version: 2.2.0

Thanks gang! Now to start the journey of actually writing stuff in Gulp 4!

[phated]

@chriscoyier Happy you were able to get this sorted out! Huge shoutout to @terinjokes for the fix!

[lucasbagatini]

My problem was that gulp and gulp-cli were installed with sudo.

So I removed: /usr/lib/node_modules/gulp-cli /usr/lib/node_modules/gulp

And the used npm install in my project and everything worked fine.

[saif-m]

Mac: where gulp Ubuntu: whereis gulp

and remove the files shown in result.

for me, whereis gulp: gulp: /usr/bin/gulp /usr/share/man/man1/gulp.1.gz

then i run: sudo rm /usr/bin/gulp /usr/share/man/man1/gulp.1.gz

and it's gone

[dragonlin]

gulp CLI version 3.9.1 diff with 2.2.0 on node v10.15

i meat the case:

use ./node_modules/.bin/gulp serve --max_old_space_size=8192 --branch="fxxx"

there will been error on CLI 3.9.1 : max_old_space_size and branch can not parse. but it works on gulp-cli 2.2.0

maybe what's why global gulp and gulp 4.0. use the cli 2.2.0

[dragonlin]

12:44 # ./node_modules/.bin/gulp serve --max_old_space_size=8192 --branch="fxxx" /root/.nvm/versions/node/v10.15.3/bin/node: bad option: --branch=fxxx [12:45:34] Node flags detected: --branch=fxxx [12:45:34] Respawned to PID: 15595

12:45 # ./node_modules/.bin/gulp -v [12:45:55] CLI version 3.9.1 [12:45:55] Local version 3.9.1

12:45 # gulp -v CLI version: 2.2.0 Local version: 3.9.1

12:18 # ./node_modules/gulp/bin/gulp.js -v CLI version: 2.2.0 Local version: 4.0.2