install

Additional install commands

Portable and language managers

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npm install -g n

local npm package metadata

overview

Package summary

Interactively Manage All Your Node Versions

Project links

Commands and aliases

n

security posture

No protected-tool coverage found yet

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for n. Nucleus package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.

Install behavior

No npm postinstall script is recorded in package metadata.
No Homebrew bottle metadata was recorded.
Build metadata lists 3 build dependencies.

Recommended review

Before unattended agent use, check whether the tool reads plaintext credentials, writes remote state, publishes artifacts, or shells out to plugins.

executables

Installed executables

Command	Kind	Exposure	Note
`n`	cli	global executable

freshness

Version and freshness

These signals separate page generation age, package-manager activity, and upstream release comparison. Version lag is warned only when an evidence URL and comparable versions are present.

page generated2026-07-09

manager version10.2.0

manager updated2025-05-21

local dataok

upstreamnot checked

latest detectednot detected

https://github.com/tj/n

warningThe package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.2025-05-21T03:43:58.312Zhigh confidence
infoNo cached GitHub release or tag data was available.https://github.com/tj/nnone confidence

install metadata

Package metadata

Package key	npm:n
Version	10.2.0
Package manager	npm
Package manager page	https://www.npmjs.com/package/n
Homepage	https://github.com/tj/n
Repository	https://github.com/tj/n
Upstream docs	https://github.com/tj/n
License	MIT
Source archive	https://registry.npmjs.org/n/-/n-10.2.0.tgz
Issue tracker	https://github.com/tj/n/issues
Last updated	2025-05-21T03:43:58.312Z
Published	2025-05-21T03:43:58.312Z
Build dependencies	bats, bats-assert, bats-support
Bottle	not recorded
npm postinstall	not defined
Service	none declared
Keywords	nvm, node, version, manager, switcher, binary, env

registry facts

Source database details

Source Database	npm registry
Dist Tags	Latest 10.2.0
Version Count	120
Maintainers	tjholowaychuk shadowspawn
Author	TJ Holowaychuk
Publisher	shadowspawn
Engines	Node *
Integrity	sha512-zlLXwSEMQgAHmsXtcZwNuA2W5rLdAJyg51DI47ubDWE0Bss0ji9sbK3eD6vM7kKgRLTFm/i4+FvE4SXvphaSHg==
Shasum	eec9d345af617f8cb2eb75da370f2364fbdfeac9
Unpacked Size	68,777
File Count	0
Created At	2011-01-05T16:20:52.658Z
Latest Published At	2025-05-21T03:43:58.312Z
Modified At	2026-06-09T21:05:50.995Z

source database matches

Other package-manager records

Matches are pulled from external package-manager indexes and kept separate from local Automic Vault package links.

MacPorts95%

n

sudo port install n

normalized package name match
Matched by: N

MacPorts ports tree · api.github.com · MacPorts ports tree: devel/n/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1

package graph

Links come from deterministic package relationships, av.db category and tag curation, ecosystem matches, and package hub membership.

source trail

Generated from repository data

This page is generated by av-web from the private package SQLite artifact built by scripts/generate-pkg-sqlite.py.

Used sources

Nucleus package database
av.db category and tag curation
cross-ecosystem install command graph
external package-manager database matches
package relationship graph
package version freshness
package-page enrichment

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