Ionic 2 cordova installation issue

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 abbrev@1.0.9 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 ~ $

[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