Claude update to 0.2.30 fails to install

Having the same issue. I am running it in WSL and it is acting the same way that you describe. No matter what I do, reboot, restart, exit and reopen, it doesn't update.

I'm having the same issue on MacOS. Something I've noticed: Claude Code reports it's version as 0.2.29 with "claude --version", while "npm ls -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code" reports 0.2.30 as being installed. I suspect this mismatch might be the source of the issue here.

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i see the same thing as @liam1241

There is a lastReleaseNotesSeen field in the Claude configuration (~/.claude.json). That might be the source of information for claude --version. I cannot speak to the wisdom of manually changing that to match the package version, but maybe that would help...?

Also, if you have more than one claude-code installation that is being run by the same user, you can see this kind of mismatch. For example:

$ npm ls -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code
/home/me/.local/share/npm-packages/lib
└── @anthropic-ai/claude-code@0.2.31

and

$ which claude
/home/me/.local/share/npm-packages/bin/claude

have the same prefix (~/.local/share/npm-packages). Having a different path prefix between the location of the library and the executable can be problematic. (Encountered the issue reported here when I switched from ~/.npm-global to ~/.local/share/npm-packages but forgot to update one of my terminal sessions to find claude in the new location.) Not saying this is the root cause for anyone else's problem, but throwing this out there as a quick sanity check.

My situation was as @emcd described.

• First I ran npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code, claude then gave me a message about not being able to auto update
• Next I ran the Recommended: Create a new user-writable npm prefix steps. I did not pay much attention, and did not notice the comment saying Replace ~/.bashrc with ~/.zshrc for mac: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/claude-code/overview#recommended-create-a-new-user-writable-npm-prefix
• claude was running from the old global npm location, and (I think) auto updating in the new user-writable location

Deleting claude from /usr/local/bin, adding the user-writable npm path in ~/.zshrc, and then running npm install -g @anthropic-ai/claude-code resolved the issue for me

Likely an issue with npm. See here: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agents-and-tools/claude-code/overview#auto-updater-permission-options

Closing out, feel free to re-open if you're still hitting this.

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