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How to update Homebridge

See original GitHub issue

Hello,

I have installed Homebridge about two months ago with sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge.

What is the safest way to check for updates and then to update it?

Thanks, dan

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Created 5 years ago
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theo-69commented, May 22, 2018

try sudo npm install -g --unsafe-perm homebridge@latest

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barquestdancommented, Oct 14, 2019

I just pieced this together from a few different issues, so I figured I would throw my thoughts together (if only so I can reference it again in the future)

1 npm update -g 2 npm cache clean -f 3 sudo n stable 4 npm install -g -unsafe-perm homebridge@latest -g

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