Ionic error of Cordova lower version - Please install your Cordova CLI to version >=4.2.0

Question

Installed Ionic successfully. When running ionic info and other commands like ionic browser --list, I get an error that cordova is lower then version 4.

Cordova is installed with no sudo and in global home directory.

> ionic info

Your system information:

Cordova CLI: 6.1.0 (cordova-lib@undefined)
Gulp version:  CLI version 3.9.1
Gulp local:   Local version 3.9.1
Ionic Version: 1.2.4
Ionic CLI Version: 1.7.14
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.7.0
OS: Distributor ID:     Ubuntu Description:     Ubuntu 15.10 
Node Version: v5.9.1


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 Dependency warning - for the CLI to run correctly,      
 it is highly suggested to install/upgrade the following:     

 Please install your Cordova CLI to version  >=4.2.0 `npm install -g cordova`

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Cordova installation is at:

> which cordova
  /home/user_1/.npm-global/bin/cordova

Ionic installation is at:

> which ionic
/home/user_1/.npm-global/bin/ionic

Answer 1

I am using [email protected] and [email protected] as well. After I got this error message, I opened a new terminal and typed cordova -v which outputted:

? May Cordova anonymously report usage statistics to improve the tool over time?

As soon as I entered my answer (No), the version number printed out and then I re-ran ionic info in my project terminal. The error was gone.

Caveats

• I had just updated [email protected] from 1.7.15. It's a very minor patch with one set of bug fixes that are not related to this.
• The particular system that I had this problem with is running Windows 10.
• The first time I ran ionic info in my project directory, I got the same error twice.

Original Error Output:

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 Dependency warning - for the CLI to run correctly,
 it is highly recommended to install/upgrade the following:

 Please install your Cordova CLI to version  >=4.2.0 `npm install -g cordova`

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Your system information:

You have been opted out of telemetry. To change this, run: cordova telemetry on.
6.2.0

Gulp version:  CLI version 3.9.1
Gulp local:   Local version 3.9.1
Ionic CLI Version: 1.7.16
Ionic App Lib Version: 0.7.3
OS:
Node Version: v4.4.2


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 Dependency warning - for the CLI to run correctly,
 it is highly recommended to install/upgrade the following:

 Please install your Cordova CLI to version  >=4.2.0 `npm install -g cordova`

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