Error installing the plugin in the `multiple-maps` branch

What is your question, problem or request?

Running:

cordova plugin add https://github.com/mapsplugin/cordova-plugin-googlemaps#multiple_maps --variable API_KEY_FOR_ANDROID="SOMETHING" --variable API_KEY_FOR_IOS="SOMETHING" --save

Results in an error:

Error: Failed to fetch plugin https://github.com/mapsplugin/cordova-plugin-googlemaps#multiple_maps via registry. Probably this is either a connection problem, or plugin spec is incorrect. Check your connection and plugin name/version/URL. Failed to get absolute path to installed module

What version of this plugin do you use? I am not yet using the plugin.

npm --v = 5.3.0

This is different error than https://github.com/mapsplugin/cordova-plugin-googlemaps/issues/1578

[AmitMY]

From stackoverflow:

I had the same problem right now. I fixed it by downgrading cordova from v7.0.0 to v6.5.0

sudo npm i -g cordova@6.5.0

They changed the way how they fetch the plugins. https://cordova.apache.org/news/2017/05/04/cordova-7.html

[rodikh]

@wf9a5m75 @AmitMY The no-fetch flag is actually --nofetch.

I’ve had issues installing cordova plugins using full github urls since cordova updated to 7.0.0, where it apparently uses npm to install the plugins.

--nofetch forces cordova to revert to the old way of installing plugins.