I have an Ubuntu 14.04 system. I had installed npm and I installed bower using
sudo npm install -g bower
Some time after that I realized that I was using the node and npm that came fromt he ubuntu repositories, so to use the latest one, I added the repository:
$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
and update the packages.
Now I was trying to uninstall bower from the system, but guess what? I get this:
$ sudo npm remove -g bower
npm WARN uninstall not installed in /usr/lib/node_modules: "bower"
So, wait, what? It cant find Bower? So I try to make
which bower
and the output here is:
/usr/local/bin/bower
I dont really understand what is going on. I suspect that I have a problem with different versions of npm and nodejs not playing nice together, since I installed bower with a different version of npm that the one I have installed now. Any idea of how I could uninstall Bower now? (Or at least come back to a clean state, so that I can begin from the beginning?)
sudo npm uninstall bower -g --prefix=/usr/local