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Welcome to John Maeda's Blog: maeda.pm. Sharing a passion for product and data, grounded in technology / business / design curiosities with a dash of leadership reflections.

  • 🆕 Resilience Books List
  • 🆕 The Useful MBA
  • 📘 How To Speak Machine
  • 📓 Resilience Tech Report
  • 🟦 Personal Site
  • ↓ On Leadership
    • Creative Leadership (2009-15)
    • Traditional vs Creative Leadership (2009)
    • Start-ups vs End-ups (2013)
    • My Four Rules (1999)
    • Managing Through Change (2009-2020)
  • 📬 Newsletter
  • youtube
  • Pinterest
  • @johnmaeda

Can’t upgrade to firebase using npm

npm ERR! EEXIST: file already exists npm ERR! File exists: /usr/local/bin/firebase npm ERR! Remove the existing file and try again, or run npm npm ERR! with –force to overwrite files recklessly.

Did you get this error message?

Well, this seems to work in 2022:

curl -sL firebase.tools | upgrade=true bash

via here

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