Upgrading to v34.2.7 ≫ v41.7.4 is not happening?

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Why am I still not upgrading to the latest Vercel even after this command?

npm i -g vercel@latest

And get this warning:

╭──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╮
│ │
│ Update available! v34.2.7 ≫ v41.7.4 │
│ Changelog: Releases · vercel/vercel · GitHub │
│ Run npm i -g vercel@latest to update. │
│ │
╰──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────╯

I have also run the command with sudo as well as npm cache clean -f

FYI,

which vercel && node --version && npm --version
/usr/local/bin/vercel
v23.10.0
10.5.0

Many thanks!

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Hi @bkamrani, welcome to the Vercel Community!

Sorry that you’re facing this issue. Have you tried clean installing the vercel CLI?

npm uninstall -g vercel
npm cache clean -f
npm i -g vercel@latest

Also, are you using NVM to manage multiple versions of Node?

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I tried but it didn’t work. There seemed to be two installations (one global and local) which messed up things. I was eventually able to resolve it by totally delete everything by force and re-install. Something like:

sudo npm uninstall -g vercel # Uninstall 
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules/vercel # Delete residual files 
sudo rm /usr/local/bin/vercel # Remove symlink
npm cache clean -f # Clear cache

Reinstall Vercel Fresh

sudo npm install -g vercel@latest --force # --force bypasses cache

Please feel free to close. Thanks!

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I’m glad you got this working. Yeah, two installations is a very common issues with -g option.

Thanks for sharing your solution with the community.