okay - propabbly I figured it out. Assumed System environment is a Win10
x64 and Node.JS 15.x.
While installation Node.JS sets two path-entries:
1. %ProgramFiles%\nodejs\
2. %AppData%\npm
For my tests I used an account with administrator account, the terminal was
started with and without administrator privileges. (comparable with SUDO)
In both szenarios npm -g effected only the 2nd location in %AppData%\npm.
So how I managed to install a copy in %ProgramFiles%\nodejs is beyond my
imagination – I never modified the first location actively.
Windows creating the PATH-varible from two parts: The common setting and a
account-individual part. The first is prioritized over the latter, what
resulted in my observed behavior: When I tried to call tiddlywiki in the
terminal, I tried to execute %appData%\npm\tiddlywiki.cmd, but ran in
effect %ProgramFiles%\nodejs\tiddlywiki.cmd. And in addition the command npm
-g update … never reached this location…
I cleand up the mess by
1. stopping all node.js-instances
2. uninstalling Node.js
3. deleting
1. %ProgramFiles%\nodejs
2. %AppData%\npm
3. %AppData%\npm-cache
[an old version of the cache? Wasn't recreated after re-installation]
4. %LocalAppData%\npm-cache
4. reinstalling Node.js
5. reinstalling node.js-Modules with npm -g at the right location
(inclusive tiddlywiki)
So far I recognize there were no entries in the Windows registry.
Hope, this helpes someone else. It was definitely not an issue of
Tiddlywiki rather a possible wrong use npm…
cheers ToraxMalu
[email protected] schrieb am Freitag, 1. Januar 2021 um 19:46:47
UTC+1:
> Err - no. But I found another installation in C:\Program
> Files\nodejs\node_modules\tiddlywiki. So my idea of something funny with
> tiddlywiki.cmd and the PATH was right.
> Mark S. schrieb am Freitag, 1. Januar 2021 um 19:36:43 UTC+1:
>
>> Is it possible that you installed at one time your own copy of tiddlywiki
>> from github. i.e. following these instructions:
>>
>> https://tiddlywiki.com/#Working%20with%20the%20TiddlyWiki5%20repository
>>
>>
>>
>> On Friday, January 1, 2021 at 9:49:54 AM UTC-8 [email protected]
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi PMario and duche,
>>>
>>> thanks for the try. I forgot to mention, I am working with Windows. So
>>> SUDO won't work in the way, you expect. ;)
>>>
>>> I fiddled around with the whole stuff and found following situation:
>>>
>>> npm -g install tiddlywiki and npm -g update tiddlywiki installing the
>>> correct version (5.1.23) in the common repository beneath %appdata%\npm.
>>> Jumping into the directory %appdata%\npm\node-modules\tiddlywiki and
>>> executing node tiddlywiki --version starts the correct version 5.1.23.
>>> A call via tiddlywiki --version displayes the version 5.1.22.
>>> Also an update as administrator (equivalent to sudo ...) doesn't change
>>> anything.
>>> I even created a VM with a virgin Windows 10 and tested – it was
>>> instantly installed and executed tiddlywiki 5.1.23.
>>>
>>> So far my testing.
>>>
>>> I just uninstalled tiddlywiki via npm - g uninstall tiddlywiki from the
>>> system, but tiddlywiki --version still executes with return 5.1.22 – so
>>> there must be another installation place for node-stuff and NPM-repository.
>>> I now start to dive into the filesystem and variables. (PATH and so on.
>>> I'll keep you informed about my progress and would appreciate further
>>> hints. Bacause there seems to exist a similar "bug" for Linux, maybe this
>>> could be an addition to the tiddlywiki-article for
>>> https://tiddlywiki.com/#Upgrading%20TiddlyWiki%20on%20Node.js .
>>>
>>> Cheers ToraxMalu
>>>
>>> [email protected] schrieb am Freitag, 1. Januar 2021 um 18:03:36 UTC+1:
>>>
>>>> Hi Torax,
>>>>
>>>> I had the same issue as you and fixed it with:
>>>>
>>>> *sudo* npm -g update tiddlywiki
>>>> sudo systemctl restart tiddlywiki
>>>>
>>>> and then refresh your tiddlywiki page in your browser.
>>>>
>>>> N.
>>>>
>>>> Le vendredi 1 janvier 2021 à 11:07:52 UTC-5, PMario a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>> Can you try: tiddlywiki --version in the command line?
>>>>>
>>>>> Then you need to _restart_ your server. ... The control panel should
>>>>> change now.
>>>>>
>>>>> -m
>>>>>
>>>>> On Friday, January 1, 2021 at 1:53:36 PM UTC+1 [email protected]
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> at first hapyp new year.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I tried the update from 5.1.22 => 5.1.23 with the descriped procedure
>>>>>> via
>>>>>>
>>>>>> `npm -g update tiddlywiki`
>>>>>>
>>>>>> A short `npm -g list` shows the successfiul update in the
>>>>>> npm-repository. But still in the control panel a version of 5.1.22 is
>>>>>> displayed. What do I miss?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks and for a reply.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> ToraxMalu
>>>>>>
>>>>>
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