Error encountered while downgrading NPM version

Question

Tried updating the NPM version of some dependencies, now I need to downgrade to an older version, but I can't do that.

Current NPM version: npm v9.8.1

Error: npm v9.8.1 is known to not run on Node.js v12.22.11. This version of npm supports the following node versions: ^14.17.0 || ^16.13.0 || >=18.0.0. You can find the latest version at https://nodejs.org/.

Answer 1

Your Node.js version is incompatible with the NPM version, as stated in the error. Downgrade the Node.js version via NVM, which will also downgrade NPM to the corresponding version.

nvm use 12