Cordova-plugin-background-geolocation: npm ERR! Could not install from "@mauron85/cordova-plugin-background-geolocation@~3.0.7" as it does not contain a package.json file.

[Taxi4you]

**(...):cordova$ cordova platform rm ios**
Removing platform ios from config.xml file...
{ Error: npm: Command failed with exit code 1 Error output:
npm ERR! code ENOLOCAL
npm ERR! Could not install from "@mauron85/cordova-plugin-background-geolocation@~3.0.7" as it does not contain a package.json file.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/razbuchnik/.npm/_logs/2019-12-12T08_33_58_733Z-debug.log
    at ChildProcess.whenDone (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-common/src/superspawn.js:169:23)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:189:13)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:970:16)
    at Socket.stream.socket.on (internal/child_process.js:389:11)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:189:13)
    at Pipe._handle.close (net.js:600:12)
  stderr:
   'npm ERR! code ENOLOCAL\nnpm ERR! Could not install from "@mauron85/cordova-plugin-background-geolocation@~3.0.7" as it does not contain a package.json file.\n\nnpm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:\nnpm ERR!     /Users/razbuchnik/.npm/_logs/2019-12-12T08_33_58_733Z-debug.log\n',
  code: 1 }

[vilasshetkar]

I'm facing same issue. Any updates?

[Taxi4you]

No updates yet

[mitLinkwok]

I am also facing the same issue.

[phoot]

any update? same issue with 3.1.0 version

[marutifh]

Any update? Same issue.

[inameandy]

Same issue....

[chorpler]

I don't know if this will help anyone else, but I was getting this error earlier tonight and discovered that at some point, I ran a cordova plugin add command that created an erroneous entry in my package.json file. Under dependencies it had the following entry:

  "cordova-plugin-background-geolocation": "@mauron85/cordova-plugin-background-geolocation@^3.1.0"

When it should have only had:

    "@mauron85/cordova-plugin-background-geolocation": "^3.1.0",

Really not sure how I did that, but removing that line with the broken version field fixed it.

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