diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs_16.11.1.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs_16.11.1.bb
index f31648082e..318cb961f8 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs_16.11.1.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/nodejs/nodejs_16.11.1.bb
@@ -160,20 +160,6 @@ do_install () {
 }
 
 do_install:append:class-native() {
-    # use node from PATH instead of absolute path to sysroot
-    # node-v0.10.25/tools/install.py is using:
-    # shebang = os.path.join(node_prefix, 'bin/node')
-    # update_shebang(link_path, shebang)
-    # and node_prefix can be very long path to bindir in native sysroot and
-    # when it exceeds 128 character shebang limit it's stripped to incorrect path
-    # and npm fails to execute like in this case with 133 characters show in log.do_install:
-    # updating shebang of /home/jenkins/workspace/build-webos-nightly/device/qemux86/label/open-webos-builder/BUILD-qemux86/work/x86_64-linux/nodejs-native/0.10.15-r0/image/home/jenkins/workspace/build-webos-nightly/device/qemux86/label/open-webos-builder/BUILD-qemux86/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/npm to /home/jenkins/workspace/build-webos-nightly/device/qemux86/label/open-webos-builder/BUILD-qemux86/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/node
-    # /usr/bin/npm is symlink to /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
-    # use sed on npm-cli.js because otherwise symlink is replaced with normal file and
-    # npm-cli.js continues to use old shebang
-    if [[ -f "${D}${exec_prefix}/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js" ]]; then
-        sed "1s^.*^#\!/usr/bin/env node^g" -i ${D}${exec_prefix}/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
-    fi
     # Install the native binaries to provide it within sysroot for the target compilation
     install -d ${D}${bindir}
     install -m 0755 ${S}/out/Release/torque ${D}${bindir}/torque
@@ -185,12 +171,6 @@ do_install:append:class-native() {
     install -m 0755 ${S}/out/Release/node_mksnapshot ${D}${bindir}/node_mksnapshot
 }
 
-do_install:append:class-target() {
-    if [[ -f "${D}${exec_prefix}/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js" ]]; then
-        sed "1s^.*^#\!${bindir}/env node^g" -i ${D}${exec_prefix}/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
-    fi
-}
-
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-npm"
 FILES:${PN}-npm = "${exec_prefix}/lib/node_modules ${bindir}/npm ${bindir}/npx"
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-npm = "bash python3-core python3-shell python3-datetime \