Cli Migration from CLI 2 to CLI 3

Topic summary

Main issue: Attempting to install Shopify CLI 3 via npm (@shopify/[email removed] repeatedly results in Shopify CLI 2 being installed, despite having the latest Node.js, Git, and Ruby, and after reinstalls.

What’s been tried: The Ruby gem for CLI 2 (shopify-cli) was uninstalled using gem uninstall shopify-cli, but npm install -g @shopify/[email removed] still yields CLI 2.

Guidance provided:

  • Remove the Ruby-based CLI 2 completely: gem uninstall shopify-cli; if remnants persist, manually delete all related files from the installation drive.
  • Review GitHub issue #1405 (potential conflicts/migration notes) for further steps.
  • If unresolved, perform a full manual cleanup of CLI 2 dependencies and artifacts (Ruby, Bundler, Git, and any Shopify CLI 2 files), then attempt a clean install of CLI 3.

Context: CLI 2 is distributed via Ruby (gem), while CLI 3 is installed via npm (@shopify/cli).

Status: No confirmed resolution yet. The key outstanding issue is preventing CLI 2 from persisting/overriding when installing CLI 3 with npm.

Summarized with AI on December 21. AI used: gpt-5.

I have latest stable version of Node.js , Lastest Version of Git and also Ruby as well, But when I run CMD of npm install -g @Shopify_77 /cli@latest i got the CLI 2 , I even uninstall everything and reinstall everything but still I got CLI 2 ! Is there any solution please :folded_hands:

try gem uninstall shopify-cli and If not delete by this command then
You have to find all the file on which drive you have installed earlier and need to delete everything manually.

Firstly thank you for reply, but yes i already try gem uninstall shopify-cli and it did uninstall , But again i try to install with npm install -g @Shopify/[email removed] it again install cli 2 ..! hope you got it.

If still not found anything then please go-through the https://github.com/Shopify/cli/issues/1405 .

that also not work then uninstall all dependencies(ruby, bundler, git and Shopify cli 2 files from system manually).
after that try to install cli 3