Nodejs version/update issue

[lightsaberluke]

When downloading nodejs the version that downloads is 23.11.1 and I cannot get it to update to the required version in order to install MagicMirror. I’m not sure what I am missing becuase I have attempted to update it and reinstall in and get latest and I can’t seem to get it to work. (Note: I am new to this.)

[sdetweil]

@lightsaberluke yes, system is tricky sometimes

if you had used the install or upgrade script it would have handled this problem for you
see https://github.com/sdetweil/MagicMirror

but you can use one of the selective node tools

i recommend n

do this

sudo npm install n -g
sudo n 22.14
hash -r
node -v

you should now have node 22.14 or 22.15

now

cd ~/MagicMirror 
npm run install-mm