How to uninstall serverless? "npm uninstall -g serverless" is not working

Question

I cannot uninstall serverless. I have tried npm uninstall -g serverless but entering serverless -v after prints the version. I'm on Ubuntu Server 16.04.

Running which serverless prints /usr/bin/serverless.

I'm using n to have multiple versions of node installed so that might have something to do with it.

Colbert

try which serverless to see the location you installed. – Gussiegussman

it prints /usr/bin/serverless – Colbert

Answer 1

Perhaps for different reasons I also wanted to remove global serverless and instead use a local version. Ultimately, regardless of installing serverless locally or globally, serverless CLI will still install serverless-components into your home directory. I think the whole point of installing serverless locally would be to pin serverless-components at a specific version number.

More to your question, here's how to remove a global install serverless and replace it with a local version.

Remove Globally Installed Serverless

Let's say you ran npm install -g serverless and you ran npx serverless. It has now installed any components listed in your serverless.yml file and updated your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile.

To remove it:

1. npm uninstall -g serverless
2. Open your ~/.bash_profile (or ~/.bashrc) and remove the line

# Added by serverless binary installer
export PATH="$HOME/.serverless/bin:$PATH"

3. rm -rf ~/.serverless
4. rm -rf ~/.serverlessrc
5. rm -rf ~/.serverlesscomponentsrc

Use Serverless locally

The serverless-nextjs docs say:

Do not add @sls-next/serverless-component to your package.json file, it is not used and only the version in serverless.yml file is used.

But, therein lies the problem, you want to use a serverless-component (like serverless-next.js) but serverless is going to install it globally in your home directory.

To avoid that you can ignore the docs and do:

1. npm install serverless --save-dev
2. npm install @sls-next/serverless-component --save-dev
3. Update serverless.yml to point directly to the component

# serverless.yml
nameOfMyApp:
 component: "./node_modules/@sls-next/serverless-component"

Pinkie

Answer 2

1. Check that you are not running a local version of serverless installed in the project directory.
2. Manually delete the binary with rm -f /usb/bin/serverless

Hooke

also it's to check if there's any serverless process running, kill it before you delete the folder. I had it on mac and had same problem, but my installation was in ~/.serverless – Nicaea

Check location using which serverless. Mine was at /home/yourname/.serverless/bin/serverless in linux. Then try deleting – Charlenacharlene

Answer 3

Try npm run with --force to overwrite files

npm install -g serverless --force

Rerun

Answer 4

Solved:

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules/serverless
sudo npm i -g serverless

Anastigmat