Error: UNABLE_TO_VERIFY_LEAF_SIGNATURE Phonegap Installation

Question

I\'m trying to install Phonegap in Ubuntu. The installation of NodeJS was successful, however I can\'t install Phonegap itself. Here is the error output of terminal:

Answer 1

You can also disable SSL check in your code using node environment variable :

in your index.js file, add :

process.env.NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = '0';

Note that this is not a good habits as it will not try to check the validity of https certificate