Uninstall Node.JS using Linux command line?
In Ubuntu 12.04 simply type this
$ sudo apt-get remove nodejsIt will uninstall nodejs and npm as well simple.
Edit: If you know which package manager was used to install, it is best to uninstall with the same package manager. Examples for apt, make, yum are in other answers.
This is a manual approach:
Running which node will return something like /path/bin/node.
Then run cd /path
This is all that is added by Node.JS.
rm -r bin/node bin/node-waf include/node lib/node lib/pkgconfig/nodejs.pc share/man/man1/node.1Now the only thing I don't know about is npm and what it has installed. If you install npm again into a custom path that starts off empty, then you can see what it adds and then you will be able to make a list for npm similar to the above list I made for node.
If you installed from source, you can issue the following command:
sudo make uninstallIf you followed the instructions on https://github.com/nodejs/node/wiki to install to your $HOME/local/node, then you have to type the following before the line above:
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/node