npm ERR! registry error parsing json - While trying to install Cordova for Ionic Framework in Windows 8

Question

I was trying to instal Ionic framework in my Windows 8 system and was trying to install Cordova first.

I\'m getting this error while trying to install Cordova, that

Answer 1

I had similar problem. I rаn npm cache clear, closed android SDK manager(which was open before) and re-ran npm install -g cordova and that was enough to solve the problem.

Answer 2

I had this same problem when trying to upgrade pm2 to the latest version.

Thanks to sdm's answer I did npm update npm -g and it did the trick for me.

Answer 3

For me following fixed the issue:

1. npm cache clear
2. Made sure that NPM & Git proxies are set properly

In this case Git proxy may not be required.

Answer 4

first I had to delete my registry by using npm config delete registry and register new value using npm config set registry "http://registry.npmjs.org"

Answer 5

In my case all Internet access must run through a proxy and npm was not configured with the proxy to reach http://registry.npmjs.org.

I ran npm install --log-level verbose to get more information and saw that the response had HTML stating I was not authenticated with the proxy.

Running the following fixed it (replacing below with your username/password/proxy address:

npm config set proxy 'username:password@your.proxy.com'
npm config set https-proxy 'username:password@your.proxy.com'

I do not advise putting the password in raw text instead using something like cntlm to set up a local proxy that delegates to the real proxy.

Answer 6

I had the same issue and the following fixed my issue:

1. Set the registry: npm config set registry "http://registry.npmjs.org/"
2. Removed the entry in hosts file (using Windows 7) => C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts