tns platform android is failing

Environment Provide version numbers for the following components (information can be retrieved by running tns info in your project folder or by inspecting the package.json of the project):

• CLI: 7.0.4
• Cross-platform modules: No Such Modules
• Android Runtime:
• Plugin(s):No Plugin

Describe the bug I ran tns platform add android and I get following error

ubuntu@ubuntu-ck0xxx:~/Projects/nativescript/test$ tns platform add android
Copying template files...
Command failed: npm view @nativescript/android  dist-tags --json

To Reproduce I setup the environment on ubuntu, created a fresh project and got error while adding android.

Expected behavior

It should add the platform

[GAGANsinghmsitece]

I uninstalled npm which i installed from apt and installed it again using nvm, and now it works fine

[NathanaelA]

Going to jump in here real quick as I run on linux also.

1. Can you do a whereis npm
2. Are you running a standard bash shell or a different default shell?
3. Can you close your terminal, open another terminal window (so it is 100% fresh) then do the following command: npm --version && tns platform add android
4. You might consider upgrading to a later version of NS. npm i -g nativescript@7.0.11 – I know version 7.0.11 works great on linux as that is what I have currently installed. But I don’t recall any issues with the earlier versions (but I tend to upgrade as needed)