Ionic v3 native Clipboard fails to install

When I try to install Cordova native Clipboard always fails.

As mentioned in the documentation I run:

ionic cordova plugin add https://github.com/VersoSolutions/CordovaClipboard.git

And always get the same error:

Error: Failed to fetch plugin https://github.com/VersoSolutions/CordovaClipboard via registry.
        Probably this is either a connection problem, or plugin spec is incorrect.
        Check your connection and plugin name/version/URL.
        Error: npm: Command failed with exit code 235 Error output:
        npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /var/folders/27/vl4t9s8x5cn2t9nkr3ffl04c0000gn/T/npm-1420-c7f639b3/git-cache-dfad5329/03fe48b62411cbff22229ca13cc3ac8b282f7945
        npm ERR! code EISDIR
        npm ERR! errno -21
        npm ERR! syscall read
        npm ERR! eisdir EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read
        npm ERR! eisdir This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
        npm ERR! eisdir and is related to npm not being able to find a package.json in
        npm ERR! eisdir a package you are trying to install.

I’m working with Ionic 3.2.0, by the way, in version 2 I didnt have problems with this plugin, but I updated Ionic and I couldnt install it any more.

I believe that Ionic CLI v3 doesn’t currently support installing from a git repo. (I could be wrong on this)

I’d try running it without the .git at the end, i.e.
ionic cordova plugin add https://github.com/VersoSolutions/CordovaClipboard

I also got this same error today. I tried running without .git at the end, but it doesn’t work.

There is a issue related to that in the plugin’s official git repo: https://github.com/VersoSolutions/CordovaClipboard/issues/28

It looks like the problem only happens in the last Cordova CLI (7)

[ERROR] Cordova encountered an error.
You may get more insight by running the Cordova command above directly.

[ERROR] An error occurred while running cordova plugin add https://github.com/VersoSolutions/CordovaClipboard --save (exit code 1):

    Error: Failed to fetch plugin https://github.com/VersoSolutions/CordovaClipboard via registry.
    Probably this is either a connection problem, or plugin spec is incorrect.
    Check your connection and plugin name/version/URL.
    Error: npm: Command failed with exit code 235 Error output:
    npm ERR! addLocal Could not install /tmp/npm-4855-b4818419/git-cache-b10d4fa2/03fe48b62411cbff22229ca13cc3ac8b282f7945
    npm ERR! Linux 4.8.0-52-generic
    npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "https://github.com/VersoSolutions/CordovaClipboard" "--save"
    npm ERR! node v6.10.3
    npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
    npm ERR! code EISDIR
    npm ERR! errno -21
    npm ERR! syscall read
    
    npm ERR! eisdir EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read
    npm ERR! eisdir This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
    npm ERR! eisdir and is related to npm not being able to find a package.json in
    npm ERR! eisdir a package you are trying to install.
    
    npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
    npm ERR!     /home/isaac/Apps/AcademicoApp/node_modules/npm-debug.log

See this issue.

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