Upgrade cordova: cannot install plugins from git urls anymore

Question

I did a cordova/phonegap upgrade and now I cannot install plugins from git urls anymore. Anyone experienced such an issue and already solved this?

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Answer 1

I had the same issue with Cordova on Windows 7. I had to roll back to 5.0.0 (npm install -g cordova@5.0.0) to make it work again.

Answer 2

A quick fix is to clone the git locally and provide the path from there. For a plug-in to start working, all it needs is to see the plugin.xml file

So cordova plugin add https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugin-fast-canvas.git -- fails because

shell.js: internal error Error: EXDEV, cross-device link not permitted '/ -- normal error in Cordova 5.1.0+. Applies to most if not all .git install

Local clone :: git clone https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugin-fast-canvas.git

And local install cordova plugin add /path/to/phonegap-plugin-fast-canvas

Works.

Answer 3

sudo npm install -g cordova@5.0.0

sudo cordova plugin add https://github.com/litehelpers/Cordova-sqlite-storage.git

Answer 4

I had the same situation with you. and resvole this problem need to pull back the cordova to 5.0.0

Answer 5

This issue is fixed in the latest cordova version(5.2.0).

Upgrade Cordova using npm install -g cordova

Answer 6

I had the same issue and got it resolved by following the advice of AMilassin (rolling back to Cordova Version 5.0) . Another issue I had was my Git installation path (C:\Program Files\Git\bin) was not added to the Environment Variables. Once I fixed both issues, I was able to install the plugins I needed.