diff --git a/src/freedombone-utils-nodejs b/src/freedombone-utils-nodejs
index 1eb7e70e..6ec4451c 100755
--- a/src/freedombone-utils-nodejs
+++ b/src/freedombone-utils-nodejs
@@ -117,25 +117,6 @@ function mesh_install_nodejs {
         exit 7235728
     fi
 
-    #$mesh_install_nodejs_prefix wget https://www.npmjs.com/install.sh -O /root/npm_install.sh
-    #if [ ! -f $rootdir/root/npm_install.sh ]; then
-    #    echo $'Unable to download npm installer'
-    #    exit 8793636
-    #fi
-    #if ! grep -q "t=\"\${npm_install}\"" $rootdir/root/npm_install.sh; then
-    #    echo $'Unable to set npm version within npm_install.sh'
-    #    exit 629052
-    #fi
-    #$mesh_install_nodejs_prefix chmod +x /root/npm_install.sh
-    #$mesh_install_nodejs_prefix sed -i "s|t=\"\${npm_install}\"|t=\"$NPM_VERSION\"|g" /root/npm_install.sh
-    #$mesh_install_nodejs_prefix /root/npm_install.sh
-    #
-    #if [ ! -f $rootdir/usr/bin/npm ]; then
-    #    echo $'npm was not installed'
-    #    exit 5290462
-    #fi
-    #cp $rootdir/usr/bin/npm $rootdir/root/npm
-
     get_npm_arch
 
     $mesh_install_nodejs_prefix npm config set unsafe-perm true
@@ -226,48 +207,7 @@ function install_nodejs {
     rootdir=
     mesh_install_nodejs
 
-
-    #if [ ! -f /usr/bin/nodejs ]; then
-    #    wget -qO- https://deb.nodesource.com/gpgkey/nodesource.gpg.key > /root/node.gpg.key
-    #    apt-key add /root/node.gpg.key
-    #    echo "deb https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x stretch main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
-    #    echo "deb-src https://deb.nodesource.com/node_6.x stretch main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/nodesource.list
-
-    #    apt-get update
-
-    #    apt-get -yq remove --purge nodejs
-
-    #    if [ -d /usr/local/lib/node_modules ]; then
-    #        rm -rf /usr/local/lib/node_modules
-    #    fi
-    #    if [ -f /usr/local/bin/node ]; then
-    #        rm /usr/local/bin/node
-    #    fi
-    #    if [ -f /usr/bin/node ]; then
-    #        rm /usr/bin/node
-    #    fi
-    #    if [ -f /usr/bin/nodejs ]; then
-    #        rm /usr/bin/nodejs
-    #    fi
-
-    #    apt-get -yq install nodejs
-    #    apt-get -yq install curl
-
-    #    if [ ! -f /usr/bin/nodejs ]; then
-    #        echo $'nodejs was not installed'
-    #        exit 63962
-    #    fi
-    #fi
-
-    #npm install -g npm@${NPM_VERSION} --save
-    #npm install -g n@${NODEJS_N_VERSION} --save
-    #n ${NODEJS_VERSION}
-    #npm install -g pug@2.0.0-beta6 --save
-    #npm install -g graceful-fs@4.1.10 --save
-    #npm install -g minimatch@3.0.3 --save
-
-    # node seems tricky so here we're going to double check
-    # that the versions we expect did get installed
+    # verify nodejs versions are what we expect
     CURR_NODE_VERSION=$(node --version)
     CURR_NPM_VERSION=$(npm --version)
     CURR_N_VERSION=$(n --version)