I'm trying to build the default Hello World phonegap project for android on my ubuntu system, but I am confronted by errors at every step.
SHORT VERSION:
- I cannot create a phonegap project without sudo (not quite true--see below).
- After creating a phonegap project with sudo, I cannot build android without sudo.
- When I type "sudo phonegap build android", I lose my path settings, resulting in an error.
- I have attempted a fix for this last problem by including the line "alias sudo='sudo env PATH=$PATH'" in.bashrc, as suggested in sudo changes PATH - why?, but it doesn't work. I also added ANDROID_HOME and PATH lines to .bash_profile, with no success.
- I think the 'android' command actually is in my path.
Here are the last lines of my .bashrc:
export PATH="$HOME/Android/tools:$PATH"
export PATH="$HOME/Android/platform-tools:$PATH"
export ANDROID_HOME="$HOME/Android:$PATH"
alias sudo='sudo env PATH=$PATH'
I also have the following in ~/.bash_profile:
export PATH="$HOME/Android/tools:$PATH"
export PATH="$HOME/Android/platform-tools:$PATH"
export ANDROID_HOME="$HOME/Android:$PATH"
LONG VERSION:
gregory@gregory-1001PXD:~/javascript$ phonegap create phonetest
Error: EACCES, permission denied '/home/gregory/.config/configstore/update-notifier-cordova.json'
You don't have access to this file.
at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:432:18)
at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:286:15)
at Object.create.all.get (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/phonegap/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/update-notifier/node_modules/configstore/index.js:34:26)
at Object.Configstore (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/phonegap/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/update-notifier/node_modules/configstore/index.js:27:44)
at new UpdateNotifier (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/phonegap/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/update-notifier/index.js:34:17)
at module.exports (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/phonegap/node_modules/cordova/node_modules/update-notifier/index.js:123:23)
at checkForUpdates (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/phonegap/node_modules/cordova/src/cli.js:64:20)
at cli (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/phonegap/node_modules/cordova/src/cli.js:114:5)
at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/phonegap/node_modules/cordova/bin/cordova:41:1)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
gregory@gregory-1001PXD:~/javascript$ sudo phonegap create phonetest
[sudo] password for gregory:
Creating a new cordova project.
gregory@gregory-1001PXD:~/javascript$ cd phonetest/
gregory@gregory-1001PXD:~/javascript/phonetest$ sudo phonegap build android
[phonegap] executing 'cordova build android'...
cp: no such file or directory: /home/gregory/javascript/phonetest/icon.png
Running command: /home/gregory/javascript/phonetest/platforms/android/cordova/build
[Error: Failed to find 'ANDROID_HOME' environment variable. Try setting setting it manually.
Failed to find 'android' command in your 'PATH'. Try update your 'PATH' to include path to valid SDK directory.]
ERROR building one of the platforms: Error: /home/gregory/javascript/phonetest/platforms/android/cordova/build: Command failed with exit code 2
You may not have the required environment or OS to build this project
Error: /home/gregory/javascript/phonetest/platforms/android/cordova/build: Command failed with exit code 2
Bu I think the android command is in my PATH (it tab-completes).
NOTE: I can create a project without sudo if I remove the file update-notifier-cordova.json. But it still produces an error, as follows.
gregory@gregory-1001PXD:~/javascript$ sudo mv /home/gregory/.config/configstore/update-notifier-cordova.json ~/Documents/
gregory@gregory-1001PXD:~/javascript$ phonegap create phonetest
Creating a new cordova project.
gregory@gregory-1001PXD:~/javascript$ cd phonetest/
gregory@gregory-1001PXD:~/javascript/phonetest$ phonegap build android
[phonegap] executing 'cordova platform add --save android'...
Error: Failed to fetch platform android@~4.1.0
Probably this is either a connection problem, or platform spec is incorrect.
Check your connection and platform name/version/URL.
Error: EACCES, open '/home/gregory/.cordova/lib/npm_cache/cordova-android/4.1.1/package/.npmignore'
[phonegap] executing 'cordova build android'...
Error: No platforms added to this project. Please use `cordova platform add <platform>`.
