ionic-cli: Updating to ionic 2.1.18 failed

From @adirzoari on December 22, 2016 21:37

Ionic version:2 I’m submitting a bug report & support request.

I’m trying to update ionic 2 version by these commands npm uninstall cordova ionic npm install -g cordova ionic

i get these error C:\Users\adirz\myapps\starter-super>npm install -g cordova ionic npm WARN deprecated node-uuid@1.4.7: use uuid module instead npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.2.14: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.3.0: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue npm WARN deprecated minimatch@2.0.10: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue npm WARN deprecated node-uuid@1.3.3: use uuid module instead C:\Users\adirz\AppData\Roaming\npm – cordova@6.4.0 `-- insight@0.8.4

npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@^1.0.0 (node_modules\ionic\node_modules\chokidar\node_modules\fsevents): npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.0.15: wanted {“os”:“darwin”,“arch”:“any”} (current: {“os”:“win32”,“arch”:“x64”}) npm WARN In ionic@2.1.18 replacing bundled version of cross-spawn with cross-spawn@4.0.2 npm WARN In ionic@2.1.18 replacing bundled version of mime-types with mime-types@2.0.14 npm WARN In ionic@2.1.18 replacing bundled version of semver with semver@4.2.0 npm WARN In ionic@2.1.18 replacing bundled version of form-data with form-data@0.2.0 npm WARN In ionic@2.1.18 replacing bundled version of request with request@2.51.0 npm WARN In ionic@2.1.18 replacing bundled version of ionic-app-lib with ionic-app-lib@2.1.9 npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.14393 npm ERR! argv “C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe” “C:\Users\adirz\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js” “install” “-g” “cordova” “ionic” npm ERR! node v6.9.1 npm ERR! npm v4.0.2 npm ERR! path C:\Users\adirz\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules.staging\ansi-f8e54430 npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! errno -4058 npm ERR! syscall rename

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename ‘C:\Users\adirz\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules.staging\ansi-f8e54430’ -> ‘C:\Users\adirz\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ionic\node_mod ules\cordova-lib\node_modules\ansi’ npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename ‘C:\Users\adirz\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules.staging\ansi-f8e54430’ -> ‘C:\Users\adirz\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ionic\node_mod ules\cordova-lib\node_modules\ansi’ 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\adirz\myapps\אפליקציות טובות להשתמש\starter-super\npm-debug.log

C:\Users\adirz\myapps\starter-super>ionic -v ‘ionic’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

00 Update NowLaterRelease Notes Info`

In addition it says ionic is not recognized ‘ionic’ is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

Copied from original issue: driftyco/ionic#9766