I solved the problem by completely removing the cleanup! nodejs and npm with this script 'os x': sudo rm /usr/local/bin/npm sudo rm /usr/local/share/man/man1/node.1 sudo rm /usr/local/lib/dtrace/node.d sudo rm -rf ~/.npm sudo rm -rf ~/.node-gyp sudo rm /opt/local/bin/node sudo rm /opt/local/include/node sudo rm -rf /opt/local/lib/node_modules sudo rm -rf /usr/local/include/node/
after that I correctly installed nodejs with pkg (I'm on os x), downloaded to the nodejs website, and installed it, then everything worked fine with meteor update and cd path/to/meteor/project ; meteor cd path/to/meteor/project ; meteor
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