# Install n with npm

Interactively Manage All Your Node Versions. Version 10.2.0 via npm; verified 2025-05-21.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:n
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g n
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:n
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/n>
- **Version:** 10.2.0
- **Source summary:** Interactively Manage All Your Node Versions
- **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>
- **Published:** 2025-05-21T03:43:58.312Z
- **Last updated:** 2025-05-21T03:43:58.312Z
- **Generated:** 2026-07-09T07:20:21+00:00

## Executables

- n (cli)

## Build dependencies

- bats
- bats-assert
- bats-support

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-09
- Package-manager version: 10.2.0
- Package-manager updated: 2025-05-21
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/tj/n
- warning: The package-manager record has not been updated in over a year.
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

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.


## 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

## Other Package-Manager Records

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


## Related links

- [Language runtime packages](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/language-runtime-packages/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [n](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/n/) - Same normalized package name appears in another local ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, language, language-runtime, manager, node.
- [nave](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/npm/nave/) - Both packages touch the same language runtime or ecosystem. Shared terms: cli, env, language, language-runtime, managers.
- [pyenv](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/pyenv/) - Local package facts share a topical domain. Shared terms: cli, language, language-runtime, manager, managers.
- [n](https://www.automicvault.com/pkg/brew/n/) - Same normalized package name exists in another local package ecosystem.

## Sources

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