Need help to Install 1.16 appium patch with 1.15.1 appium

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Hi,

I am trying to add new 1.16 appium patch to 1.15.1 and followed below mentioned steps.
Can you please let me know whether i am following right path?

  1. Download appium https://github.com/appium/appium/tree/v1.16.0.
  2. git checkout appium.
  3. npm install
  4. Copy node_modules folder to /usr/local/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules.
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why not?

npm uninstall -g appium
npm install -g appium