Ionic-capacitor v3 unknown option ‘–npm-client’

Capacitor
#1

Getting an error while creating the project : error: unknown option ‘–npm-client’.
Any help will be appreciated.

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#2

@Smizz It looks like the npm-client option is no longer used, so you should be good to just omit it and re-run the command capacitor.cmd init AppName AppID --web-dir www

With appName being your appName, and AppID being your appId in capacitor.config.ts

#3

@Smizz you can do 2 things:

  1. install testing version of ionic-cli: npm install -g @ionic/cli@testing
    or
  2. install older version of capacitor, for example in package.json:
    “dependencies”: { … , “@capacitor/android”: “^2.4.2”, “@capacitor/core”: “2.4.2”, …},
    “devDependencies”: { … “@capacitor/cli”: “2.4.2”, … }
    first run: npm uninstall capacitor
    then run: npm install capacitor
    The 2nd works for me just now, 10sec ago.
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New project breaks adding capacitor 3.0.2
Error: unknown option '--npm-client'
#4

If you are using @ionic/cli, then run
npm install -g @ionic/cli@latest

If you are using the old ionic CLI, then run

npm uninstall -g ionic
npm install -g @ionic/cli@latest
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#5

awesome, installing an older version worked for me, thanks a bunch!

edit: installing latest @ionic/cli did nothing. Current version is 6.19.1