Ghost CLI does not update. Unable to update Ghost to v5.94.2

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While updating from 5.94.2 to the follow message is shown:

Message: Ghost v5.94.2 is not compatible with this version of the CLI. Your CLI version is 1.25.3, but Ghost v5.94.2 requires ^1.26.0
Help: Run npm install -g ghost-cli@latest to upgrade the CLI, then try again.

Debug Information:
OS: Ubuntu, v23.10
Node Version: v18.20.4
Ghost Version: 5.80.4
Ghost-CLI Version: 1.25.3
Environment: production
Command: ‘ghost update’

Issue is that when updating Ghost CLI it seems to work, as no error is issued.

udo npm install -g ghost-cli@latest
(#########⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂⠂) ⠦ idealTree:ora: sill placeDep node_modules/ghost-cli strip 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

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Bur trying to update again ghost after trying to update Ghost CLI would show the same error message.

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You might have multiple versions of the CLI installed. You can run ghost version to see if you have 1.26.x installed

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Only one is shown here:

user@mainframe:/var/www/ghost$ ghost version

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Ghost-CLI version: 1.25.3
Ghost version: 5.80.4 (at /var/www/ghost)
user@mainframe:/var/www/ghost$

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You can use whereis ghost to see what paths to ghost exist. The path you’re using now is 1.25.x

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user@mainframe:/var/www/ghost$ whereis ghost
ghost: /usr/bin/ghost /usr/local/bin/ghost

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So you do have 2 versions of Ghost installed, you’ll need to figure out where they came from and remove the one you don’t want

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ghostls_1
ghostls_1971×75 18.3 KB

Is not that just only showing where the ghost command binaries are?

Ghost ls only shows one instance, as it is supposed.

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Nope, that’s showing where ghost’s data lives. It doesn’t tell you anything about the location of the ghost-cli program.

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Ah nice!

Doing a “/usr/bin/ghost update”, i could update the instance sucessfully! Thanks!

How could i remove the /usr/local/bin/ghost one?

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user@mainframe:/var/www$ /usr/local/bin/ghost version
Ghost-CLI version: 1.25.3

user@mainframe:/var/www$ /usr/bin/ghost version
Ghost-CLI version: 1.26.1

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You can run sudo rm /usr/local/bin/ghost to remove it, and verify with whereis ghost after removal

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That was it!
Thanks for your help @vikaspotluri123 @Raki @Cathy_Sarisky, much appreciated.

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