How do you uninstall Bower (the package manager)?

Question

How do you uninstall Bower? I mean the package manager, not the packages (that I have already uninstalled).

Jovita

npm install -g bower – Rehabilitate

It depends how you installed bower in the first place. – Gondola

Answer 1

To uninstall global package :

npm uninstall -g bower

See this thread : how to uninstall npm modules in node js?

Champlain

I got a bunch of errors with npm ERR!... How can I bypass them and force to uninstall properly? – Jovita

Are you root when you launch the cmd ? Try with sudo before. – Champlain

Yes I typed sudo -s before the command line before to uninstall Bower. And I just got bash-3.2# as answer from the Terminal after typing my password (and before to uninstall Bower). – Jovita

First I was not root, so I got an error from Bower asking me to log as root. Then, I got other errors from Bower when I tried again to uninstall. Now I got npm WARN uninstall not installed in /usr/local/lib/node_modules as error: "bower": what does it mean? – Jovita

It means bower is uninstall globally : try bower -v -> if it show an error, bower is not here anymore. – Champlain

I got -bash: bower: command not found: thanks, it works :-) – Jovita

Great. Can you please set your question as answered. – Champlain

Answer 2

sudo npm uninstall -g bower

Sudo: to do it as an superUser/administrator

-g : to try it globally

Bristol

Answer 3

sudo npm uninstall -g bower
sudo npm remove -g bower
sudo npm rm -g bower

npm Uninstall aliases remove, rm, r, un, unlink reference

Camfort

Can you elaborate the steps? – Neutral

In mentioned 3 lines(commands), you can use any one of 'em to uninstall the bower. remove, rm, r, un, unlike are "uninstall alias". does it make sense? – Camfort