Unable to add plugins. Perhaps your version of Cordova is too old

praveen · May 6, 2014, 5:13am

Hello ionicons,

I am trying to workout ionic framework but I could even start it because of the following error:

$ ionic start myApp
Running start task…
Creating Ionic app in folder /Users/praveenjegan/Documents/myApp based on tabs project

DOWNLOADING: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-base/archive/master.zip

DOWNLOADING: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-starter-tabs/archive/master.zip
Initializing cordova project.
Fetching plugin “org.apache.cordova.device” via plugin registry
Error: Failed to fetch package information for org.apache.cordova.device
at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/plugman/src/registry/registry.js:32:20
at Request.cb [as _callback] (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/plugman/src/registry/registry.js:251:9)
at self.callback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/plugman/node_modules/request/index.js:148:22)
at Request.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:117:20)
at ClientRequest.self.clientErrorHandler (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/plugman/node_modules/request/index.js:257:10)
at ClientRequest.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
at Socket.socketErrorListener (http.js:1547:9)
at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
at net.js:440:14
at process._tickCallback (node.js:415:13)
ERROR: Unable to add plugins. Perhaps your version of Cordova is too old. Try updating (npm install -g cordova), removing this project folder, and trying again.
Exiting.

Following is working environment,

latest Node.js
latest ionic framework
latest Cordova

I also tried tried to workout sample projects given here but same problem

Can someone guide me to start work with IONIC Framework?

praveen · May 6, 2014, 6:27am

I have fixed it myself. Using the below error message,

ERROR: Unable to add plugins. Perhaps your version of Cordova is too old. Try updating (npm install -g cordova), removing this project folder, and trying again.

move into your project folder myApp and install the cordova plugin directly from their GitHub using the below command

$ cordova plugin add https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/cordova-plugin-device.git

Now you can add platforms and start to play with IONIC

But IONIC TEAM please fix the error and make it easy to play with it.

Thank you,
Praveen Jeganathan.

mhartington · May 6, 2014, 2:02pm

Thanks for pointing this out. Our CLI doesn’t add cordova to your system when you install it, that is up to the user.

stevetobrien · May 18, 2014, 11:19pm

Having the same problem. Used the link above and got the following response.

Current working directory is not a Cordova-based project

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve

mhartington · May 19, 2014, 12:53am

Are you sure in the directory that you created? Try following the video form our learn site.

http://learn.ionicframework.com/videos/getting-started/

stevetobrien · May 19, 2014, 4:08am

Thanks that worked but still issue with cordova.
My version is 3.4.0-0.1.0

Any idea why cordova not playing nice?

Thanks for your help. Can’t wait to get started building!
-Steve

mhartington · May 19, 2014, 12:41pm

You can always run $ sudo npm install -g cordova to get the latest version (3.4.1).

stevetobrien · May 21, 2014, 3:22am

I have 3.5.0-0.2.4 cordova but still seeing error plugins will not load? Thinks my version is old.

mhartington · May 21, 2014, 3:24am

My only other advise would be to create a new project then move your code over. I’m not too sure what the issue could be.

grahamfowler · May 22, 2014, 9:18am

Just to add to this, had a similar problem on a Windows 8.1 box running latest version of npm and cordova. My problem was related to the Ionic Keyboard plugin trying to download to a directory that does not exist… rather than anything to do with cordova being out of date. As soon as I added that directory tree in my AppData directory it worked fine.

Just in case it helps someone. Regards, Graham

Output from console:

DOWNLOADING: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-base/archive/master.zip

DOWNLOADING: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-starter-blank/archive/master.zip
Initializing cordova project.
Fetching plugin “org.apache.cordova.device” via plugin registry
Fetching plugin “org.apache.cordova.console” via plugin registry
Fetching plugin “https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-plugins-keyboard” via git clone
Error: Command failed: fatal: could not create work tree dir ‘C:\Users\fowlergz.ADF\AppData\Local\Temp\plugman\git\1400749889006’.: No such file or directory

at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:637:15)
at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
at Socket.<anonymous> (child_process.js:956:11)
at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
at Pipe.close (net.js:465:12)

ERROR: Unable to add plugins. Perhaps your version of Cordova is too old. Try updating (npm install -g cordova), removing this project folder, and trying again.
Exiting.

bcswartz · May 25, 2014, 2:26pm

“Just in case it helps someone.”

It did. Thanks.

Dheeraj · May 26, 2014, 6:35am

Exact same issue and the same solution worked. Thanks. Hope this will be fixed soon.

seebschil · May 26, 2014, 6:06pm

I got this error. Is there something wrong with my JAVA_HOME path? Java should be installed correctly…

Error: Failed to run ‘java -version’, make sure your java environment is set up
including JDK and JRE.
Your JAVA_HOME variable is C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.7.0_55\bin
Error: Command failed: ‘java’ is not recognized as an internal or external comma
nd,

operable program or batch file.

at C:\Users\sebastiaan\.cordova\lib\android\cordova\3.5.0\bin\lib\check_reqs

.js:62:22
at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:641:7)
at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
at Socket. (child_process.js:956:11)
at Socket.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
at Pipe.close (net.js:465:12)
Error: C:\Users\sebastiaan.cordova\lib\android\cordova\3.5.0\bin\create.bat: Co
mmand failed with exit code 8
at ChildProcess.whenDone (C:\Users\sebastiaan\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modul
es\cordova\node_modules\cordova-lib\src\cordova\superspawn.js:131:23)
at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:98:17)
at maybeClose (child_process.js:743:16)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:810:5)
Unable to add platform android. Please see console for more info.

stevetobrien · May 28, 2014, 11:57pm

Can someone share the exact path.

I added to appData the following and still no success.
appData/local/Temp/plugman/git

Thanks
Steve

germ13 · May 29, 2014, 3:15am

Working on windows 8.1 as well.
Had same issue.
Same error message, only difference was the number at the end of the folder path, very similar though.

Created folder that was missing, re-ran command, and problem was fixed.

grahamfowler · May 29, 2014, 8:32am

Steve,

Problem seems to be very machine depend (and/or intermittent) as I have exactly the same set up on another PC and do not encounter this issue. I recall that I only created the /plugman directory, and then it worked fine.

GF

stevetobrien · June 5, 2014, 3:03am

Thanks Graham.
Can you recall the entire path.
Ex. AppData/plugman

Is this how you set your directory?

Thanks,
Steve

grahamfowler · June 5, 2014, 8:15am

Steve,

The full path is in my original post above.

Regards, Graham

jeff_collier · June 5, 2014, 8:34pm

I had the same issue on Mac OS X 10.9 with the latest cordova, et al. The solution was for me to remove the proxy setting for git, as I fortunately didn’t need it.

git config --global --unset http.proxy

To determine if you have a proxy setting for git:

git config --global --list

rsiddhu · June 15, 2014, 12:10pm

I had the same issue on windows 8.
can anyone tell me how to slove this issue.

Thanks.