installing ionic npm ERR! tar.unpack error

Question

while installing ionic npm install -g ionic getting error.

Have tried

Answer 1

I was having same problem on Windows 8 (64 bit)

Solution:

Don't forget to install other dependencies before installing ionic http://ionicframework.com/docs/guide/installation.html

1) Uninstall Node from Control Panel

2) Restart PC

3) Download (MSI Installer) older version of Node from http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.38/ or 64bit http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.38/x64/

4) Install Node version 0.10.38

5) npm install -g cordova

6) npm install -g ionic

Done!

Answer 2

it is not nessesary to uninstall node...

just remove the old npm ionic folder

...AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\ionic

and try again

npm install -g ionic

Answer 3

For me the answers provided did not work. I got around this problem by installing cordova and ionic at the same time.

npm install -g cordova ionic

If proxy is preventing this, other things to try are setting the proxy, making http request and disabling strict-ssl. An example of setting proxy is

npm config set proxy=http://username:password@domain:port/

To make http request only change the config

npm config set registry=http://registry.npmjs.org/

To disable strict-ssl

npm config set strict-ssl=false

Also, if you wanted to view the default list of configs type

npm config ls -l

This will also show what configurations have been overridden.

Answer 4

Uninstall Node.js and install freshly after done installation run the following command

npm install -g ionic cordova

That's it.