Error: unknown option '--npm-client'

Capacitor
1

getting this issue when trying to get capacitor up and running in an existing project.

capacitor init Ionic-Sandbox io.ionic.starter --npm-client npm
error: unknown option '--npm-client'
[ERROR] An error occurred while running subprocess capacitor.
        
        capacitor init Ionic-Sandbox io.ionic.starter --npm-client npm exited with exit code 1.
        
        Re-running this command with the --verbose flag may provide more information.

I have tried:

npm uninstall -g ionic
npm install -g @ionic/cli@latest

suggested here and this does not fix my issue. any help would be appriciated.

2

Try following our Using Capacitor with Ionic Framework. It has steps for getting Capacitor set up with an existing Ionic application. Sounds like just what you need! :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

3

yes I had looked at that and followed the steps (clearly missed something). then I got the error…

when running:

ionic integrations enable capacitor

I get:

[ERROR] An error occurred while running subprocess capacitor.
        
        capacitor init Ionic-Sandbox io.ionic.starter --npm-client npm exited with exit code 1.
        
        Re-running this command with the --verbose flag may provide more information.