Ionic-framework: Ionic 2 cordova installation issue

[pkosenko]

I don't know where to put this, since Apache Cordova does not apparently allow public bug reports in Jira. Maybe someone here has reporting access to their site.

A couple days ago I tried installing "$npm install -g ionic cordova" in windows that resulted in neither being installed.

Yesterday I installed separately. $npm install -g ionic worked okay, but $npm install -g cordova gave me the error that I had previously. See below.

$npm install -g cordova

The installation failed at the attempt to copy someting called "abbrev" from a nonexistent ".staging" directory over to the global npm

It looks like a LOT of the installation modules got installed, but I worry that if "abbrev" was not the final one, it's failure to install (and the install abort) may have caused other modules not to be installed, which
could be a DISASTER. (See more below.) I actually HAVE a recent version of [email protected] installed (10/27/2016) package date . . . so I may have tried installing recently and the cordova package was only recently broken.

And no config files were installed in the top-level "cordova" directory! Another reason that the installation may be broken in a big way.

This is on Windows 7. I have the very latest stable Node and NPM installed (unless another was released in the last week).

SO: There is something seriously wrong with the "abbrev" package. It seems to believe that it was installed in a ".staging" directory that does not exist and hence cannot copy itself over
to the normal npm cache.

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$ ionic --version
2.1.4

$ npm install -g cordova
C:\Users\pkosenko\AppData\Roaming\npm
`-- (empty)

..... [many nodules show being installed here]

npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7601
npm ERR! argv "c:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Users\pkosenko\AppData\Roaming\npm\

\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "cordova"
npm ERR! node v6.8.0
npm ERR! npm v3.10.9
npm ERR! path C:\Users\pkosenko\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules.staging\abbrev-f7f922e4
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -4058
npm ERR! syscall rename

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename 'C:\Users\pkosenko\AppData\Roaming\npm
\node_modules.staging\abbrev-f7f922e4' -> 'C:\Users\pkosenko\AppData\Roa
ming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\npm\node_modules\abbrev'
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename 'C:\Users\pkosenko\AppData\Roaming\npm
\node_modules.staging\abbrev-f7f922e4' -> 'C:\Users\pkosenko\AppData\Roa
ming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\npm\node_modules\abbrev'
npm ERR! enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! C:\Users\pkosenko\npm-debug.log
npm ERR! code 1
pkosenko@PETER-KOSENKO ~
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[Khalid-Nowaf]

I used to have the same problem but on OSX , I fix it by uninstall ionic and cordova then install them again.

npm uninstall -g cordova ionic
npm install -g cordova ionic

[ghenry22]

Try the Cordova slack channel as well for support queries

[pkosenko]

Thanks for the help. That worked. The ionic part of the installation was okay. It was Cordova that was giving the problem. So, since I installed ionic separately yesterday, today I just uninstalled and reinstalled just Cordova. I wonder what the problem is. Something in Cordova update seems not to quite be working with my latest bleeding edge NPM? I was beginning to think that the problem is that NPM is not completely bullet-proofed for backward compatibility . . . which having to uninstall/reinstall would seem to suggest.

In any case, uninstall/reinstall worked. Thanks.

[jgw96]

Hello, thanks for using Ionic! @pkosenko were you able to open an issue with the cordova team? Also, what version of cordova are you running?

[pkosenko]

I am using now the very latest cordova. I was installing Ionic 2.

$ npm list -g cordova
[..................] - : info using [email protected]
+-- [email protected]

"_id": "[email protected]", (from package.json)

Unfortunately, I cannot tell you what version of Cordova I HAD, since I had to UNINSTALL it to get the latest cordova to install. But it was a version of cordova that was packaged with Ionic 1.

And I suspect that it might be something about NPM that was unable to update to cordova 6.4.0

$ npm --version
3.10.9

[jgw96]

Glad to hear that it was solved, sorry that you had issues.

[niilante]

I had installed ionic earlier on on my windows 10 system, and ionic -serve failed, So I resulted in uninstalling ionic cordova which till date has resulted in ionic not responding, but cordova is working perfectly. Before I forget, today I installed cordova ionic and it was moved to my npm-cache directory. I need to use ionic badly, but I am getting fed up already.