updating node.js in windows 7 64 bit

Question

How to update node.js in Windows 7 64-bit OS?

I tried the famous :

npm cache clean -f
npm install -g n
n stable

But in npm install -g n it failed giving the following error:

C:\Windows\system32>npm install -g n
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/n
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/n
npm ERR! notsup Unsupported
npm ERR! notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: n@1.2
.9
npm ERR! notsup Valid OS:    !win32
npm ERR! notsup Valid Arch:  any
npm ERR! notsup Actual OS:   win32
npm ERR! notsup Actual Arch: ia32

npm ERR! System Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! command "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program File
s (x86)\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "n"
npm ERR! cwd C:\Windows\system32
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.28
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.9
npm ERR! code EBADPLATFORM
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Windows\system32\npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

Please suggest a solution. I suspect this could be because of the 64-bit version of the OS.

Thanks and regards.

Answer 1

You can update simply by executing the Windows installer for the latest node.js version from here.

n doesn't work on Windows because it's basically a giant (bash) shell script.