'Cannot install latest nodejs using conda on Mac

When I run conda search -c conda-forge nodejs, I get:

# Name                       Version           Build  Channel
...
nodejs                        14.2.0      h2c41780_1  conda-forge
nodejs                        14.2.0      h38d8c5a_0  conda-forge
nodejs                        14.3.0      h2c41780_0  conda-forge
nodejs                        14.4.0      h2c41780_0  conda-forge

But when I try to install it using conda install -c conda-forge nodejs it tries to install 6.13.1. Doing conda install -c conda-forge nodejs==14.4.0 also does not work. It keeps trying to "solve" the environment. Any suggestions on how to fix this?

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Solution 1:[1]

I had a similar problem and this is how I fixed it:

First I did not only conda install -c conda-forge nodejs, but all the commands that are listed in the https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/nodejs.

conda install -c conda-forge nodejs
conda install -c conda-forge/label/gcc7 nodejs
conda install -c conda-forge/label/cf201901 nodejs
conda install -c conda-forge/label/cf202003 nodejs

With this I got 13.10.1 version of nodejs. And after I did conda update nodejs and received 14.8.0 version of it.

Solution 2:[2]

Here's my workaround:

I installed nodejs for Mac from the .pkg file from the offical site and then every time I update packages in my conda environments, I force remove the nodejs version conda installs with:

conda uninstall --force nodejs

and then go about using the environment as if it had nodejs installed. That way when any other package needs nodejs, it gets the latest one from the system directory /usr/local/.

Solution 3:[3]

NodeJS 15.3 successfully installed as of today, with:

conda install -c conda-forge nodejs

On a miniconda 4.9.2, python 3.9 environment.

As detail, the icu==68.1 get installed together.

Solution 4:[4]

Just try this:

conda upgrade -c conda-forge nodejs

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Solution Source
Solution 1
Solution 2 Geoffrey Simms
Solution 3 Vincenzo Lavorini
Solution 4 Markos Kashiouris

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