# Install npm-check-updates with npm

Find newer versions of dependencies than what your package.json allows. Version 22.2.9 via npm; verified 2026-06-28. Also installable with nix: nix profile install nixpkgs#npm-check-updates.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install npm:npm-check-updates
```

Additional install commands:

### Portable and language managers

- npm (100%):

```sh
npm install -g npm-check-updates
```

  Evidence: local npm package metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** npm:npm-check-updates
- **Package manager:** npm
- **Package manager page:** <https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm-check-updates>
- **Version:** 22.2.9
- **Source summary:** Find newer versions of dependencies than what your package.json allows
- **Homepage:** <https://github.com/raineorshine/npm-check-updates>
- **Repository:** <https://github.com/raineorshine/npm-check-updates>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://github.com/raineorshine/npm-check-updates>
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Issue tracker:** <https://github.com/raineorshine/npm-check-updates/issues>
- **Published:** 2026-06-28T19:36:04.979Z
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-28T19:36:04.979Z
- **Generated:** 2026-08-04T22:13:35+00:00

## Executables

- npm-check-updates (cli)

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: not available

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-08-04
- Package-manager version: 22.2.9
- Package-manager updated: 2026-06-28
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://github.com/raineorshine/npm-check-updates
- info: No cached GitHub release or tag data was available.

## Security Notes

No matching local secret-handling manifest was found for npm-check-updates. Package metadata is still published here so future coverage has a stable package URL.


## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** npm registry
- **Dist Tags:** Latest: 22.2.9, Next: 17.1.4-0
- **Version Count:** 534
- **Maintainers:** raine, tjunnone
- **Author:** Tomas Junnonen
- **File Count:** 0
- **Created At:** 2013-09-07T02:39:10.816Z
- **Latest Published At:** 2026-06-28T19:36:04.979Z
- **Modified At:** 2026-06-28T19:36:04.979Z

## Other Package-Manager Records

- Nix - npm-check-updates: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/np/npm-check-updates/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1
- pacman - npm-check-updates - 23.0.0-1: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: npm-check-updates from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Find newer versions of dependencies than what your package.json allows | https://github.com/raineorshine/npm-check-updates


## Related links

- [Package ecosystem packages](https://pkg.so/package-ecosystem-tools/) - Matched curated package taxonomy and local package facts.
- [npm-check-updates](https://pkg.so/brew/npm-check-updates/) - Same normalized package name appears in another local ecosystem. Shared terms: allows, check, cli, dependencies, developer.
- [npm-check](https://pkg.so/npm/npm-check/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: check, cli, dependencies, dependency, dependency-management.
- [npm-force-resolutions](https://pkg.so/npm/npm-force-resolutions/) - Both packages work with overlapping file formats or content types. Shared terms: cli, dependency, dependency-management, developer, developer-tools.
- [npm-check-updates](https://pkg.so/brew/npm-check-updates/) - Same normalized package name exists in another local package ecosystem.

## Sources

- pkg.so package database
- package-page enrichment
- package version freshness
- pkgdb category and tag curation
- package relationship graph
- external package-manager database matches
- cross-ecosystem install command graph