Ionic-cli: Cannot load module Xmlbuilder

[adamdbradley]

_From @karajrish on February 19, 2016 8:33_

Short description of the problem:

I have installed ionic on my Ubuntu 14.04 machine as per instructions from the official site. However, when I run the ionic command from my terminal for starting a new application it gives an error with the following stacktrace :

module.js:327
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module 'xmlbuilder'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:325:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:276:25)
at Module.require (module.js:353:17)
at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
at Object. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/node_modules/xml2js/lib/xml2js.js:12:13)
at Object. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ionic/node_modules/xml2js/lib/xml2js.js:436:4)
at Module._compile (module.js:409:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:416:10)
at Module.load (module.js:343:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:300:12)

I have also tried installing xmlbuilder through the npm package installer but to no avail

Please help me in resolving this problem

_Copied from original issue: driftyco/ionic#5524_

[tlancina]

Does uninstalling and reinstalling Ionic fix it?

Try npm cache clean, then npm install -g ionic (you may need sudo).

[cjmielke]

This is affecting me as well. Completely fresh install of Ubuntu 14.04. Reinstalling ionic doesn't help. Ive tried completely removing npm and nodejs and wiping both the cache and modules.

[jakjoud]

I've had the same issue, after trying every possible option, I stumbled upon this link https://blog.nraboy.com/2014/09/install-android-cordova-ionic-framework-ubuntu/ it seems to be working

[ashleypeacock]

Also getting this issue on redhat.
And have had this issue on ubuntu, I couldn't fix it reinstalled the OS and it worked. The original install was pretty fresh.

[vuongtuananh]

You should check your nodejs version.
command: nodejs -v
Make sure that nodejs is ver4, if other, you must uninstall your nodejs and install nodejs 4 again.
Goodluck!
P/s:
Uninstall:
sudo apt-get remove nodejs
Install:

curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_4.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

[ghost]

I got this error after trying this code:
$ npm install -g cordova ionic
Seems like npm needs to install ionic prior to cordova, so try this one afterwards.
$ npm install -g ionic cordova

[ghost]

I am with the same error and I made a lot of things to fix it

[marco-lavagnino]

I'm having this problem too (running on Ubuntu 14.04).

I tried running cordova and it failed with a similar message. I suspect this is a problem with npm rather than ionic.

[jgw96]

Hello all! Is this still an issue with the latest version of ionic? Thanks!

[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!