# Install production version of ionic 4 - I do not want ionic 5

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**Created:** [January 31, 2020, 12:19pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/install-production-version-of-ionic-4-i-do-not-want-ionic-5/182546 "2020-01-31T12:19:03Z")\
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Good news - we actually released Ionic CLI `6.0.0` under the npm tag `@ionic/cli` within the last week. This has been a long time coming and it took some convincing internally to get a more descriptive package name, but I think this will help in the future! We tweeted about this earlier: [https://twitter.com/Ionicframework/status/1223268498362851330?s=20](https://twitter.com/Ionicframework/status/1223268498362851330?s=20)

The documentation on the site has been updated to reflect this: [How to Install The Ionic Framework CLI to Build Mobile Apps](https://ionicframework.com/docs/installation/cli)

The older package will live on since there are so many tutorials out there that use the `ionic` package, but this is a step in the right direction.

As for how to respond to any package confusion, I wrote up a response awhile back that may be helpful to link to:

> [@Ionic 4 released January 2019, now we have Ionic 5](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-4-released-january-2019-now-we-have-ionic-5/165130/4):
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> Hey there, Ionic Framework has not released major version 5, you are seeing the Ionic CLI release. Ionic CLI The ionic package is the Ionic CLI arrow_right [ionic - npm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/ionic) The CLI is used to start & serve Ionic apps, but does not contain any changes to the framework. You can see more information on the CLI installation here: [How to Install The Ionic Framework CLI to Build Mobile Apps](https://ionicframework.com/docs/installation/cli) Here is the changelog for version 5 of the CLI: [https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-cli/blob/develop/packages/io…](https://github.com/ionic-team/ionic-cli/blob/develop/packages/ionic/CHANGELOG.md#500-2019-05-29)

Usually when we see incorrect packages being referenced we’ll recommend running `ionic info` from within the project as that gives the best overview of the different packages & their versions. Hopefully that helps. 🙂

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