cordova cli installation error

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Solution 1

I just want to add an official answer to Swaminathan Vetri suggestion. Here's exactly what I did to resolve:

sudo npm cache clean make sure to run with sudo

and then,

sudo npm install -g cordova again make sure to run with sudo.

Thanks!

Solution 2

Thank you all for your answer, i have had the issues resolve from all of your contribution. This are the step i followed.

  1. npm cache clean
  2. Bring back the node version to v0.10.36 as suggested that the latest version of node may not be compatible for the new cli for window users.
  3. Run the node cli or cmd in admin mode
  4. npm install -g cordova

Thank your all for your time and contribution

Solution 3

try running the command

npm cache clean first

and then re-install the package by running

npm install -g cordova

Solution 4

I had faced a similar issue. Running the command prompt as an Administrator solved my issue. Try that option as well if you have not already tried.

Solution 5

I had exactly the same issue during Cordova installation, but on Ubuntu 14.04.

sudo npm cache clean

Resolved my problem.

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Akinsanya Olanrewaju
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Updated on June 16, 2022

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  • Akinsanya Olanrewaju
    Akinsanya Olanrewaju almost 2 years

    I try updating my ionic cordova cli when i started getting issues installing the two package, but now ionic have been successfully installed and i have tried installing the cordova now, all attempt was not successful This is the error message am getting

    $ npm install -g cordova
    npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.3.9600
    npm ERR! argv "c:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "c:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\
    node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "cordova"
    npm ERR! node v0.12.0
    npm ERR! npm  v2.5.1
    npm ERR! file C:\Users\Akinsanya Olanrewaju\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\cordova-js
    \3.7.3\package\package.json
    npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE
    
    npm ERR! Failed to parse json
    npm ERR! Unexpected token
    npm ERR! File: C:\Users\Akinsanya Olanrewaju\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\cordova-j
    s\3.7.3\package\package.json
    npm ERR! Failed to parse package.json data.
    npm ERR! package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.
    npm ERR!
    npm ERR! This is not a bug in npm.
    npm ERR! Tell the package author to fix their package.json file. JSON.parse
    
    npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
    npm ERR!     f:\npm-debug.log
    

    Please i need you help as am in the middle of a project, maybe any other sources of installing cordova on my machine except from npm will be appreciated or any ways to fix this issues.

    Thanks.