Cannot install Ghost locally on Mac OS X - ghost-cli incompatibility?

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I’m trying to install Ghost locally (have done this a year or so ago successfully) but am stuck.

node --version
v18.18.2
nvm --version
0.39.5
npm --version
9.8.1

ghost --version
Ghost-CLI version: 1.25.3

And this is where things go pear-shaped …

ghost install local

It is recommended that you upgrade before continuing.
Run `npm install -g ghost-cli@latest` to upgrade.


✔ Checking system Node.js version - found v18.18.2
✔ Checking current folder permissions
✔ Checking memory availability
✔ Checking free space
✔ Checking for latest Ghost version
✔ Setting up install directory
✖ Downloading and installing Ghost v5.105.0
A SystemError occurred.

Message: Ghost v5.105.0 is not compatible with this version of the CLI. Your CLI version is 1.25.3, but Ghost v5.105.0 requires ^1.26.0
Help: Run `npm install -g ghost-cli@latest` to upgrade the CLI, then try again.

Debug Information:
    OS: macOS, v14.7
    Node Version: v18.18.2
    Ghost-CLI Version: 1.25.3
    Environment: development
    Command: 'ghost install local'

So I attempt to update ghost-cli …
npm install -g ghost-cli@latest

npm WARN deprecated inflight@1.0.6: This module is not supported, and leaks memory. Do not use it. Check out lru-cache if you want a good and tested way to coalesce async requests by a key value, which is much more comprehensive and powerful.
npm WARN deprecated glob@7.2.3: Glob versions prior to v9 are no longer supported

changed 596 packages in 45s

But ghost-cli is not updated as
ghost --version
still returns Ghost-CLI version: 1.25.3

This should not be this difficult, and when I originally did it, wasn’t.

Any ideas?

As an aside, and perhaps unrelated, when I upgraded node to v20.18.1 the ghost installation fails claiming that node is incompatible … which it should not be, based upon my reading of the documents where 20.x is recommended.

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It sounds like you have multiple versions of the cli installed. You can run whereis ghost to confirm.

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I’ve found using nvm on Mac greatly reduces the misery caused by node versioning. One of the benefits - in addition to being able to switch easily between node versions - is that when it makes it easy to check the global package version (e.g ghost-cli) is installed with the active node version, e.g nvm use v20; which ghost ; ghost --version

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Thanks @vikaspotluri123 and @NickAbs … I thought I’d used nvm (and definitely have it installed), but whereis ghost tells me I have a homebrew copy lurking somewhere. Time to roll my sleeves up and sort out $PATH.

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