Does anyone know of a way to uninstall the Zeit Now npm CLI tools? I’ve never heard of this company before this class, and I’m hesitant to install something to my terminal – I don’t know if/what/ or how it’ll talk back to Zeit while I’m not looking.
Apparently a bunch of other people have been having trouble uninstalling both the desktop app and the CLI tools:
Looks like for the CLI you’ll need to hunt for its files manually:
And the desktop app will leave a lot of files as cache behind:
I’m trying this out on a VM, and maybe a cloud VM if that doesn’t work. It’s a hastle, but I don’t want to take the risk of adding junk or security threats to my computer. How safe are these tools to use?
edit: I think a way to uninstall zeit now cli tools is to remove: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/now/, though that’s on Ubuntu Linux; unsure about other OS’s, and not sure if that would lead to a clean uninstall – or if other files would be left around, or changes to config files & etc.
edit2:
Has Zeit deployment changed? I’m running Now from the course deployment docs and I’m getting failed builds after about 30-min wait time after entering now.
Sometimes this’ll fail at step 3/9: Step 3/9 : RUN apt install -y python3-dev gcc and using cache, other times it’ll fail at Step 7/9 and say that it couldn’t find some numpy umath library.
I’ll update this if I find a solution.
edit3:
I tried again with a fresh start. I created a new VM on GCP. Once online it couldn’t find npm via sudo apt install npm so I set up the machine via (see: stackoverflow link):
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
sudo apt-get install -y build-essential
sudo apt install npm
sudo npm install -g now
sudo npm i -g --unsafe-perm now
Then following the instructions from the fast.ai deployment tutorial:
wget https://github.com/fastai/course-v3/raw/master/docs/production/zeit.tgz
tar xf zeit.tgz
cd zeit
now
After confirming email and running now again, this was the result:
jupyter@instance-1:~/zeit$ now
> WARN! You are using an old version of the Now Platform. More: https://zeit.co/docs/v1-upgrade
> Deploying ~/zeit under blah@gmail.com
> https://zeit-vybcijlirb.now.sh [v1] [in clipboard] (sfo1) [2s]
> Building…
> Sending build context to Docker daemon 31.74kB
> Status: Image is up to date for python:3.6-slim-stretch
> ---> Using cache
> ---> 370bd47378c2
> Step 7/9 : RUN python app/server.py
> ---> Using cache
> Step 3/9 : RUN apt install -y python3-dev gcc
> ---> 9799e0e87f00
> ---> Using cache
> ---> 68038eb9c796
> Error! Build failed
The deployment site itself looked like this. It hung on Storing image for most of the time until returning the Build failed error in terminal.
@arunoda any thoughts? My guess is the tutorial code/docker was configured for an earlier version of fastai.
Glad to know you ended up loading from s3 directly as well.
