Ionic-cli: Cordova CLI not detected with ionic info

[adamdbradley]

_From @anishone on February 3, 2016 7:41_

I installed cordova using sudo npm install -g cordova and can see that its installed:
sudo npm -g list | grep cordova

├─┬ [email protected]
│ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ ├── [email protected]
│ │ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ ├── [email protected]
│ │ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ │ ├── [email protected]
│ │ │ ├─┬ [email protected]
│ │ │ ├── [email protected]
│ │ │ ├─┬ [email protected]

But, ionic info shows that Cordova CLI is not installed.

$ sudo ionic info
Your system information:

Cordova CLI: Not installed
Ionic Version: 2.0.0-alpha.53
Ionic CLI Version: 2.0.0-beta.17
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.0.0-beta.8
ios-deploy version: Not installed
ios-sim version: 5.0.6
OS: Mac OS X El Capitan
Node Version: v5.3.0
Xcode version: Xcode 6.4 Build version 6E35b

However, if I install [email protected], then ionic info identifies that its installed. Strange!

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling ionic, ionic@beta.. but still it shows the same error. Am I missing something? Is there any way to let ionic know the path of Cordova? I want to use newer versions of cordova.

Thanks!

_Copied from original issue: driftyco/ionic#5313_

[adamdbradley]

_From @anishone on February 4, 2016 6:5_

Thanks @tlancina . Let me know if you need any other debug info from me. I m still stuck with this :(

[pjhartin]

I'm suffering with the same identical issue, did you guys ever find a solution?

[jdpipkin]

I figured out the issue (at least for me). I didn't have permissions to the Cordova folder after updating to 6.0. Try this stack overflow helped.

[pjhartin]

@jdpipkin Thanks for getting back to me. Yes, I did something similar and outlined it here: https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/cordova-cli-6-0-0-not-detected-please-help/47012/3?u=pjhartin

But yes it seemed to be a permissions issue, and a sudo issue for me. Glad it seems to be working now!

[biruwon]

Looks like ionic get the cordova version from the update-notifier-cordova.json which is in ~/.config/configstore (for Linux). Just do

sudo chown $your_user update-notifier-cordova.json

and this will solve the problem

[thmsct]

@biruwon Dude, big thanks ! I search for a long time why the heck I can't install cordova > 4.2, your trick saved me and works flawlessly !

[agbottan]

Hi all. I'm having the same issue here.
Just adding some detail.
By doing "ionic info" I got "Cordova CLI: Not installed"
and by doing: "sudo ionic info", I got "Cordova CLI: 6.1.1"

So, it must be a permission issue indeed.

[jgw96]

Hello all! I seem to not be able to repro this on my machine with osx el capitan and cordova 6.0.0. Is this only an issue with cordova 6.1.1?

[jgw96]

Hello all! As it seems it has been a while since there was any activity on this issue i will be closing it for now. Feel free to comment if you are still running into this issue. Thanks for using Ionic!

[crynis]

How about on Windows? Got the same problem but not seem to be a permission issue.

[cozzbie]

For mac just use sudo ionic info

[ciesielskico]

Still getting this issue on Linux Mint x64.

cordova -v: 6.4.0
ionic -v: 2.1.17
node -v: 6.9.2
npm -v: 3.10.9

Running ionic info prints:

---

Dependency warning - for the CLI to run correctly,
it is highly recommended to install/upgrade the following:

Please install your Cordova CLI to version >=4.2.0 npm install -g cordova

---

Your system information:

Cordova CLI: Not installed
Ionic CLI Version: 2.1.17
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.1.7
ios-deploy version: Not installed
ios-sim version: Not installed
OS: Linux 4.4
Node Version: v6.9.2
Xcode version: Not installed

Strangely, running sudo ionic info prints:

sudo: ionic: command not found

The above "fix" with sudo chown didn't work for me.

[eduardoAvendano]

I also tried to give the ownership to my update-notifier-cordova.json file but it didn't worked. What make it worked for me is give the ownership to the entire folder with the command:

sudo chown -R $your_user .config/configstore/

Hope it helps!

[ScreamZ]

@ciesielskico Did u find a workaround ?

[ciesielskico]

Fix was to fix npm permissions as described here https://johnpapa.net/how-to-use-npm-global-without-sudo-on-osx/

[ScreamZ]

I check tonight, I was sure that was something like that because I moved my npm global package to my home directly. Thanks buddy