Unable to Update Claude Code on MacBook Terminal
Status Fixed / completed
Maintainer reply ✓ Yes — wolffiex
Activity 11 comments · opened Jun 5, 2025 · closed Jun 6, 2025
💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (wolffiex, collaborator)
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Bug Description
I can't update to the new Claude Code, i'm stuck on the research preview (macbook terminal)
Environment Info
- Platform: macos
- Terminal: Apple_Terminal
- Version: 0.2.19
- Feedback ID: 4d46d7e8-2157-43c1-8250-95e6f0e56a2d
11 Comments
can you give some more detail about what you tried? What do
claude updateandclaude doctorsay?I tried downloading Claude again with the npm command
Auto updates are on, and /doctor says it's healthy
I tried login out, login in again same results
Also Claude update && Claude does update but then it's still the research
preview with sonnet 3.7
Le jeu. 5 juin 2025, 22:23, Adam Wolff @.***> a écrit :
how about
which claudeIt gives me Claude 3.7 Sonnet (20250219)
Version is 0.2.19
which claude should tell you where claude is installed.
Ok sorry here it is : /usr/local/bin/claude
I also ran npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code@latest
It told me
[
changed 3 packages in 3s
2 packages are looking for funding
run
npm fundfor details]
But version is still 0.2.19
Oh interesting. Is that a symlink? Can you remove it? That is not where global npm installs go
Yes, it's a symlink:
lrwxr-xr-x 1 arthurbrunswick staff 53 27 fév 11:47 /usr/local/bin/claude -> ../lib/node_modules/@anthropic-ai/claude-code/cli.mjs
Should I remove it and reinstall?
yes, that looks like it was manually installed. try removing it and we can always put it back if things go awry
Found it! New claude is working at /Users/arthurbrunswick/.npm-global/bin/claude
Will create a symlink back to /usr/local/bin/claude to make it accessible.
Issue resolved - the manual symlink was indeed blocking the update.
Thanks for the help!
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