Cannot upgrade or remove firebase from system - firebase

I cannot, as the title suggests, upgrade or in any way remove the current version of firebase off my system and I don't understand why. I installed it using the firebase commands prompted when you first start a project, something in line with npm install -g firebase-tools. After I've installed other packages to go along with it and I've upgraded the packages accordingly.
Now I want to remove the package I just do not understand how to do it. I've run
npm uninstall -g firebase-tools
npm uninstall -g firebase-admin
npm uninstall -g firebase-functions
npm uninstall -g firebase*
...and many other variations. After a while of trying I just figured I'll check what packages may still be left.
npm ls | grep firebase
Shows no firebase packages are still installed, however, running any firebase command will still work perfectly. Running firebase --version I get 3.15.4. I've also, just as a Hail Mary, tried running apt remove --purge firebase*
Further digging I figured that maybe the npm ls command was off, so I tried reinstalling all firebase packages. I ran it again and there they were, however* firebase was now at version 4.12.1. Running firebase --version still produce 3.15.4.
I'm really lost at this point. All help articles relating to uninstalling firebase leads to either how to delete projects or databases or to npm's how to uninstall a package website.
Sincerely.


You can't delete it, because you need to remove entire folder. This worked for me when I ran into the same problem:
which firebase
This locates the folder where firebase is (in Mac case it's /usr/local/bin/firebase) and then you do:
rm /usr/local/bin/firebase
Now do firebase -V and you'll get Command firebase not found. And now you can install back firebase with the real latest actual version:
npm i -g firebase-tools#latest
However, if you run firebase it will still give you Command firebase not found for what you can do this:
alias firebase="`npm config get prefix`/bin/firebase"
Worked for me with almost exactly the same problem.
Hope this helps you too!

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Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: fsevents#2.1.3

I am using ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS
I was trying to learn admin sdk tutorials from google codelab, and was trying to setup the defined project in this
While setting up, the following command gives an error.
npm -g install firebase-tools
and error: "No firebase command found" on command firebase --version
I have tried setting npm settings globally as described here, but nothing works.
Can anyone help me with this, as I am new to firebase admin SDK.

Shouldn't you first install firebase itself?
npm i -g firebase

cannot install firebase tools

I'm using Mac OS 10.15.2, Terminal 2.10.
I'm trying to install firebase tools to allow me to upload my experiment to firebase.
The following is what I used to do, which had been giving me success. But today, I'm using a new computer, and the installations were unsuccessful. I'm pasting the record in command line, as a screenshot, here for your reference
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Thank you very much!

You are using the wrong package. You should be using "firebase-tools" instead of "firebase-cli". Be sure to read through the warnings and errors carefully.
Uninstall the old firebase-cli package:
sudo npm uninstall -g firebase-cli
Then install the correct firebase-tools package:
sudo npm install -g firebase-tools

Try running the command with sudo i.e use the command
sudo npm install -g firebase-tools

Firebase deploy error - node_modules missing?

I've been looking fo the exact same question but i couldnt find it. Could someone tell me what is wrong with this?
Firebase deploy error command

this worked for me
firstly i ran sudo npm install npm -g
secondly npm install in the functions folder

Error when trying to install firebase with NPM

I am trying to (re)install Firebase, however, when I run sudo npm install -g firebase-tools the following error shows up:
I have no idea what is wrong, it used to work well a few month ago.

You try running
npm cache clean
and then trying to install again.
If the error is not lost try below
Have you tried installing homebridge with the --unsafe-perm option?
sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge
If npm detects it is running as root it drops to a non-privileged user which then doesn't have permissions to write to /root/.node-gyp. The --unsafe-perm option stops it from changing user.
nvm doesn't have this problem when not using sudo because it stores everything under the current users' home directory.

firebase version is not updating through <npm install -g firebase-tools>

i am windows user and trying to update firebase version using
npm install -g firebase-tools but when i run firebase --version
it shows the same version.
I also run npm uninstall firebase --save and check firebase --version it shows same.
what should i do to update my firebase version?

npm update -g firebase-tools
or
npm install -g firebase-tools#3.12.0 to install a specific version
And make sure to restart your terminal/IDE otherwise, it won't take effect.

Have you tried npm update -g firebase-tools? This worked for me.

These days if you're on an older version, and you check the version of firebase-tools, by running:
firebase -V
along with the version of firebase-tools that you're on, it also gives you a messages, something like this:
So you can basically run npm i -g firebase-tools to update the version of your firebase-tools installation to the latest version.
Hope this helps :)

For other like me stumbling in with a weird version mismatch:
When I did firebase -V in my terminal I would get a different version (5.1.1) than when I ran firebase through a npm run script (3.19.3)
The problem was that I had previously installed firebase locally into that project. In other words, I was getting the global version in the terminal, but npm was using the node_modules version
To confirm this, I added a simple test called test-foo to my package.json (firebase -V && which firebase) and ran it:
kuzyn(λ)matebox‡ npm run test-foo
kuzyn-project#1.1.0 test-foo /home/kuzyn/code/kuzyn-project/firebase
firebase -V && which firebase
3.19.3
/home/kuzyn/code/kuzyn-project/firebase/node_modules/.bin/firebase
Then I removed the (uneeded in my case) local firebase package from the package.json and from node_modules

Try the 2 steps bellow
1. yarn/npm cache clean
2. npm install -g firebase firebase-tools or yarn add -g firebase firebase-tools
in a new terminal, firebse --version
works for me

it works to me...
standalone binary: Download the new version, then replace it on your system
if you are using the standalone.Download the new version

In my case I was using an old node version (v10) and had to switch to a newer one (v12). After that I ran npm install -g firebase-tools again and it was updated to the latest version.
You can check the current node version by running node -v. And I use nvm to switch to a different node version.

That might happen in case you've installed the firebase-cli using a so called automatic install script.
Try to call curl -sL https://firebase.tools | upgrade=true bash as described in the official documentation

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