Unable to update Ghost CLI

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I am trying to update Ghost to the latest version (5.93.0). I’m currently on 5.55.0. However when I run ghost update, ghost update --force, or ghost update 5.93.0 --force I get the following message:

Ghost v5.93.0 is not compatible with this version of the CLI. Your CLI version is 1.24.0, but Ghost v5.93.0 requires ^1.26.0
Help: Run `npm install -g ghost-cli@latest` to upgrade the CLI, then try again.

I have tried running npm install -g ghost-cli@latest as well as npm install -g ghost-cli@1.26.0 and I see that there are a bunch of packages updated. There are a few WARNs but no errors.

But then I run ghost --version is says that I’m still on ghost-cli version 1.24.0. The same version I had before “updating” it.

I’m hosting on Ubuntu 22 LTS (on Linode)
My Node Version is 18.12.1

Anyone have an idea on how to work around this?

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Also forgot to mention, when I run ghost doctor, everything seems ok, but there is a warning here, that might be relevant to my issue:

✔ Checking system Node.js version - found v18.12.1
✔ Checking logged in user
✔ Ensuring user is not logged in as ghost user
✔ Checking if logged in user is directory owner
✔ Checking current folder permissions
✔ Checking system compatibility
✔ Checking for a MySQL installation
+ sudo systemctl is-active XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
✔ Validating config
✔ Checking folder permissions
✔ Checking file permissions
✔ Checking content folder ownership
✔ Checking memory availability
✔ Checking binary dependencies
✔ Checking free space
✔ Checking systemd unit file
Warning: Ghost is running with node v16.19.0.
Your current node version is v18.12.1.
✔ Checking systemd node version - found v16.19.0

This part about Warning: Ghost is running with node v16.19.0. Your current node version is v18.12.1. Do I need to change the version of Node that Ghost is running on in some config file, or something?

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This means you have multiple versions of Node installed. You’ll need to figure out how that happened, after you might be able to update the CLI

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Hi @codysechelski , you can try to use n to switch the version of node

To install:

npm install -g n

Then use like this:

n 16.19.0

I hope it helps

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Yup, I had version 16 in /usr/bin and version 18 in my home folder. Apparently Ghost is looking for node in usr/bin

I was able to just wget the version 18 and swap out the node and npm binaries in /usr/bin

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