cordova cli installation error

Question

I try updating my ionic cordova cli when i started getting issues installing the two package, but now ionic have been successfully installed and i have tried installing the cordova now, all attempt was not successful This is the error message am getting

$ npm install -g cordova
npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.3.9600
npm ERR! argv "c:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "c:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\
node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "cordova"
npm ERR! node v0.12.0
npm ERR! npm  v2.5.1
npm ERR! file C:\Users\Akinsanya Olanrewaju\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\cordova-js
\3.7.3\package\package.json
npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE

npm ERR! Failed to parse json
npm ERR! Unexpected token
npm ERR! File: C:\Users\Akinsanya Olanrewaju\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\cordova-j
s\3.7.3\package\package.json
npm ERR! Failed to parse package.json data.
npm ERR! package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! This is not a bug in npm.
npm ERR! Tell the package author to fix their package.json file. JSON.parse

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     f:\npm-debug.log

Please i need you help as am in the middle of a project, maybe any other sources of installing cordova on my machine except from npm will be appreciated or any ways to fix this issues.

Thanks.

Answer 1

I just want to add an official answer to Swaminathan Vetri suggestion. Here's exactly what I did to resolve:

sudo npm cache clean make sure to run with sudo

and then,

sudo npm install -g cordova again make sure to run with sudo.

Thanks!