I'm trying to change npm versions from 6.4.1 to 8.12.0 and it refuses to change. I'm running Windows x64. I've tried uninstalling, rebooting, deleting the AppData\Roaming\npm related files, installing the new version from nodejs.org, and running npm install again. I've tried where.exe npm to find more files. I've tried specifying the version number in npm install. Nothing works.
npm -v still returns 6.4.1.
Interestingly,
npm view npm versions --json
returns this:
[ "1.1.25", "1.1.70", "1.1.71", "1.2.19", "1.2.20", "1.2.21", "1.2.22", "1.2.23", "1.2.24", "1.2.25", "1.2.27", "1.2.28", "1.2.30", "1.2.31", "1.2.32", "1.2.8000", "1.3.0", "1.3.1", "1.3.2", "1.3.4", "1.3.5", "1.3.6", "1.3.7", "1.3.8", "1.3.9", "1.3.10", "1.3.11", "1.3.12", "1.3.13", "1.3.14", "1.3.15", "1.3.16", "1.3.17", "1.3.18", "1.3.20", "1.3.21", "1.3.22", "1.3.23", "1.3.24", "1.3.25", "1.3.26", "1.4.0", "1.4.1", "1.4.2", "1.4.3", "1.4.4", "1.4.5", "1.4.6", "1.4.7", "1.4.8", "1.4.9", "1.4.10", "1.4.11", "1.4.12", "1.4.13", "1.4.14", "1.4.15", "1.4.16", "1.4.17", "1.4.18", "1.4.19", "1.4.20", "1.4.21", "1.4.22", "1.4.23", "1.4.24", "1.4.25", "1.4.26", "1.4.27", "1.4.28", "1.4.29", "1.5.0-alpha-0", "1.5.0-alpha-1", "1.5.0-alpha-2", "1.5.0-alpha-3", "1.5.0-alpha-4", "2.0.0-alpha.6", "2.0.0-alpha.6.0", "2.0.0-alpha.7", "2.0.0-alpha-5", "2.0.0-beta.0", "2.0.0-beta.1", "2.0.0-beta.2", "2.0.0-beta.3", "2.0.0", "2.0.1", "2.0.2", "2.1.0", "2.1.1", "2.1.2", "2.1.3", "2.1.4", "2.1.5", "2.1.6", "2.1.7", "2.1.8", "2.1.9", "2.1.10", "2.1.11", "2.1.12", "2.1.13", "2.1.14", "2.1.15", "2.1.16", "2.1.17", "2.1.18", "2.2.0", "2.3.0", "2.4.0", "2.4.1", "2.5.0", "2.5.1", "2.6.0", "2.6.1", "2.7.0", "2.7.1", "2.7.2", "2.7.3", "2.7.4", "2.7.5", "2.7.6", "2.8.0", "2.8.1", "2.8.2", "2.8.3", "2.8.4", "2.9.0", "2.9.1", "2.10.0", "2.10.1", "2.11.0", "2.11.1", "2.11.2", "2.11.3", "2.12.0", "2.12.1", "2.13.0", "2.13.1", "2.13.2", "2.13.3", "2.13.4", "2.13.5", "2.14.0", "2.14.1", "2.14.2", "2.14.3", "2.14.4", "2.14.5", "2.14.6", "2.14.7", "2.14.8", "2.14.9", "2.14.10", "2.14.11", "2.14.12", "2.14.13", "2.14.14", "2.14.15", "2.14.16", "2.14.17", "2.14.18", "2.14.19", "2.14.20", "2.14.21", "2.14.22", "2.15.0", "2.15.1", "2.15.2", "2.15.3", "2.15.4", "2.15.5", "2.15.6", "2.15.7", "2.15.8", "2.15.9", "2.15.10", "2.15.11", "2.15.12", "3.0.0", "3.1.0", "3.1.1", "3.1.2", "3.1.3", "3.2.0", "3.2.1", "3.2.2", "3.3.0", "3.3.1", "3.3.2", "3.3.3", "3.3.4", "3.3.5", "3.3.6", "3.3.7", "3.3.8", "3.3.9", "3.3.10", "3.3.11", "3.3.12", "3.4.0", "3.4.1", "3.5.0", "3.5.1", "3.5.2", "3.5.3", "3.5.4", "3.6.0", "3.7.0", "3.7.1", "3.7.2", "3.7.3", "3.7.4", "3.7.5", "3.8.0", "3.8.1", "3.8.2", "3.8.3", "3.8.4", "3.8.5", "3.8.6", "3.8.7", "3.8.8", "3.8.9", "3.9.0", "3.9.1", "3.9.2", "3.9.3", "3.9.4", "3.9.5", "3.9.6", "3.10.0", "3.10.1", "3.10.2", "3.10.3", "3.10.4", "3.10.5", "3.10.6", "3.10.7", "3.10.8", "3.10.9", "3.10.10", "4.0.0", "4.0.1", "4.0.2", "4.0.3", "4.0.5", "4.1.0", "4.1.1", "4.1.2", "4.2.0", "4.3.0", "4.4.0", "4.4.1", "4.4.2", "4.4.3", "4.4.4", "4.5.0", "4.6.0", "4.6.1", "5.0.0", "5.0.1", "5.0.2", "5.0.3", "5.0.4", "5.1.0", "5.2.0", "5.3.0", "5.4.0", "5.4.1", "5.4.2", "5.5.0", "5.5.1", "5.6.0", "5.7.0", "5.7.1", "5.8.0-next.0", "5.8.0", "5.9.0-next.0", "5.10.0-next.0", "5.10.0-next.1", "5.10.0", "6.0.0-next.0", "6.0.0-next.1", "6.0.0-next.2", "6.0.0", "6.0.1-next.0", "6.0.1", "6.1.0-next.0", "6.1.0", "6.2.0-next.0", "6.2.0-next.1", "6.2.0", "6.3.0-next.0", "6.3.0", "6.4.0-next.0", "6.4.0", "6.4.1-next.0", "6.4.1" ]
Please help!