New to Ionic - Unexpected identifier

ionic-v1
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Hey all,

I downloaded node and Cordova, and was trying to install Ionic per (https://ionicframework.com/docs/guide/installation.html), but am receiving the following error:

$ sudo npm install -g cordova
$ sudo npm install -g cordova
^^^^
SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

Rookie error, but could someone help?

Thanks!
Ben

2

somethingā€™s wrong with your app.js or controller.js file i think?

3

Are you entering this :

$ sudo npm install -g cordova

Or this :

sudo npm install -g cordova

You may need to get NPM and Node JS packages

EDIT: Can see you already have node

4

Thank you both for your help! I was using, ā€œ$ sudo npm install -g ionicā€. I am pretty junior in all things development, so how would I fix my app.js or controller.js?

5

You donā€™t need the $ sign for you statement. In terminal on Mac, Linux usually there is a $ at the end of the line. The dollar in the Ionic docs just what the command will look like on your terminal and a bit of a suggestion that the line you see should be used in terminal. In windows or other OS they usually end a line with ā€˜>ā€™ or something like that.

So to fix, just ignore the dollar sign, the right command will be :

sudo npm install -g ionic

edit: https://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1852263 for reasons as to why its a dollar

:slight_smile:

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6

Please donā€™t run node as root. Just say no to sudo. Use nvm.

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