ionic-cli: Cordova CLI not detected with ionic info

From @anishone on February 3, 2016 7:41

I installed cordova using sudo npm install -g cordova and can see that its installed: sudo npm -g list | grep cordova

├─┬ cordova@6.0.0
│ ├─┬ cordova-lib@6.0.0
│ │ ├── cordova-app-hello-world@3.10.0
│ │ ├─┬ cordova-common@1.0.0
│ │ ├─┬ cordova-js@4.1.3
│ │ ├── cordova-registry-mapper@1.1.14
│ │ ├─┬ cordova-serve@1.0.0
│ │ ├─┬ ionic-cordova-lib@5.1.10
│ │ │ ├── cordova-app-hello-world@3.9.0
│ │ │ ├─┬ cordova-js@4.0.0
│ │ │ ├── cordova-registry-mapper@1.1.14
│ │ │ ├─┬ cordova-serve@0.1.3

But, ionic info shows that Cordova CLI is not installed.

$ sudo ionic info
Your system information:

Cordova CLI: Not installed
Ionic Version: 2.0.0-alpha.53
Ionic CLI Version: 2.0.0-beta.17
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.0.0-beta.8
ios-deploy version: Not installed
ios-sim version: 5.0.6
OS: Mac OS X El Capitan
Node Version: v5.3.0
Xcode version: Xcode 6.4 Build version 6E35b

However, if I install cordova@4.2.0, then ionic info identifies that its installed. Strange!

I tried uninstalling and reinstalling ionic, ionic@beta… but still it shows the same error. Am I missing something? Is there any way to let ionic know the path of Cordova? I want to use newer versions of cordova.

Thanks!

Copied from original issue: driftyco/ionic#5313

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Comments: 16 (2 by maintainers)

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Looks like ionic get the cordova version from the update-notifier-cordova.json which is in ~/.config/configstore (for Linux). Just do

sudo chown $your_user update-notifier-cordova.json

and this will solve the problem

biruwon on Apr 3, 2016

Still getting this issue on Linux Mint x64.

cordova -v: 6.4.0
ionic -v: 2.1.17
node -v: 6.9.2
npm -v: 3.10.9

Running ionic info prints:

Dependency warning - for the CLI to run correctly,
it is highly recommended to install/upgrade the following:

Please install your Cordova CLI to version >=4.2.0 npm install -g cordova

Your system information:

Cordova CLI: Not installed Ionic CLI Version: 2.1.17 Ionic App Lib Version: 2.1.7 ios-deploy version: Not installed ios-sim version: Not installed OS: Linux 4.4 Node Version: v6.9.2 Xcode version: Not installed

Strangely, running sudo ionic info prints:

sudo: ionic: command not found

The above “fix” with sudo chown didn’t work for me.

alexciesielski on Dec 21, 2016

I figured out the issue (at least for me). I didn’t have permissions to the Cordova folder after updating to 6.0. Try this stack overflow helped.

jdpipkin on Mar 21, 2016

Hi all. I’m having the same issue here. Just adding some detail. By doing “ionic info” I got “Cordova CLI: Not installed” and by doing: “sudo ionic info”, I got “Cordova CLI: 6.1.1”

So, it must be a permission issue indeed.

agbottan on Apr 22, 2016