Phonegap installation error (npm)

Question

I have been searching for a solution for two days now to setup Phonegap on my Windows 8.1 system without any success.

Whenever I try to install Phonegap through npm

Answer 1

Problem

We published with a dependency on a branch of cordova-lib. This fork appears unavailable when lots of requests are coming through (I think). One way or another, it's unreliable. Changing the dependency to 0.21.3 will cause commands to fail, but will allow the install.

Solutions

1. update the 'cordova-lib' dependency to the npm published version '0.21.3' **note, this will allow the install, but other phonegap commands will fail

2. wait for about 20 minutes, then npm update -g phonegap testing an update to resolve this issue

further updates momentarily

update We've pushed version 3.5.0-0.20.3 which should resolve this issue

$ npm update -g phonegap

if that doesn't work, try

$ npm cache clean

and reinstall phonegap