diff --git a/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/tests/commands/add/version-specifier.ts b/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/tests/commands/add/version-specifier.ts
index 1aface1702e4..0ffaf915ecd4 100644
--- a/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/tests/commands/add/version-specifier.ts
+++ b/tests/legacy-cli/e2e/tests/commands/add/version-specifier.ts
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 import { appendFile } from 'node:fs/promises';
-import { expectFileToMatch, rimraf } from '../../../utils/fs';
+import { expectFileToMatch } from '../../../utils/fs';
 import { getActivePackageManager, uninstallPackage } from '../../../utils/packages';
 import { ng } from '../../../utils/process';
 import { isPrereleaseCli } from '../../../utils/project';
 
 export default async function () {
   // forcibly remove in case another test doesn't clean itself up.
-  await rimraf('node_modules/@angular/localize');
+  await uninstallPackage('@angular/localize');
 
-  // If using npm, enable the force option to allow testing the output behavior of the
+  // If using npm, enable the legacy-peer-deps option to allow testing the output behavior of the
   // `ng add` command itself and not the behavior of npm which may otherwise fail depending
   // on the npm version in use and the version specifier supplied in each test.
   if (getActivePackageManager() === 'npm') {
-    await appendFile('.npmrc', '\nforce=true\n');
+    await appendFile('.npmrc', '\nlegacy-peer-deps=true\n');
   }
 
   const tag = (await isPrereleaseCli()) ? '@next' : '';