The ionic start command fails for me with the following error on Ubuntu 14.04

Question

The ionic start command fails for me with the following error on Ubuntu 14.04 and need assistance in resolving the issue:

andrew@FinancialIndepence:~/WebstormProjects/stadiumStore/mobile$ ionic start myApp tabs Creating Ionic app in folder /home/andrew/WebstormProjects/stadiumStore/mobile/myApp based on tabs project

Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-app-base/archive/master.zip [=============================] 100% 0.0s

Downloading: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-starter-tabs/archive/master.zip [=============================] 100% 0.0s

Update config.xml Initializing cordova project Fetching plugin "org.apache.cordova.device" via plugin registry npm ERR! registry error parsing json npm ERR! registry error parsing json npm ERR! registry error parsing json SyntaxError: Unexpected token I Internal routing error

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at Object.parse (native)
at RegClient.<anonymous> (/home/andrew/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/request.js:274:23)
at /home/andrew/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/cordova-lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-registry-client/lib/request.js:251:7
at Gunzip.onEnd (zlib.js:167:5)
at Gunzip.emit (events.js:117:20)
at _stream_readable.js:944:16
at process._tickCallback (node.js:442:13)
Unable to add plugins. Perhaps your version of Cordova is too old. Try updating (npm install -g cordova), removing this project folder, and trying again. (CLI v1.3.0)

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

In the forums several people were saying that the plugins.cordova.io server was down. Others say that trying a different version worked for them.

http://forum.ionicframework.com/t/ionic-start-cli-errors/15468/4

I just ran the same command and had no trouble with it