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From: Filip Maj <fil@adobe.com>
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Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2013 16:03:31 -0700
Subject: Re: cordova-cli problems on linux
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Yeah the install script does a check for root user:

https://github.com/apache/cordova-cli/blob/master/bootstrap.js#L61


Interesting that that is not working out..

On 5/28/13 10:35 AM, "Don Coleman" <don.coleman@gmail.com> wrote:

>I re-did the NPM install but didn't see the message. I'll retry on a fresh
>machine today.
>
>
>On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Braden Shepherdson
><braden@chromium.org>wrote:
>
>> I note also the "macosx" in some paths there.
>>
>> And isn't there are message during the npm install that warns about
>> chmodding that directory? I agree that this sucks and it would be great
>>to
>> fix it.
>>
>> Braden
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Andrew Grieve <agrieve@chromium.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > One hope here is that the problem will go away once we lazily fetch
>>the
>> > platform repos.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 12:28 AM, Don Coleman <don.coleman@gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >
>> > > "cordova platform add android" was failing on linux with an error
>> > > about the android-sdk-macosx
>> > >
>> > > don@localhost:~/tmp/foo$ cordova platform add android
>> > > [Error: An error occured during creation of android sub-project.
>> > > BUILD FAILED
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>>=20
>>/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/lib/cordova-android/framework/build.x
>>ml:133:
>> > > Cannot find /Applications/android-sdk-macosx/tools/ant/build.xml
>> > > imported from
>> > >
>> >
>>=20
>>/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/lib/cordova-android/framework/build.x
>>ml
>> > >
>> > > cordova 2.7.4 node 0.10.8 npm 1.2.23 Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS | crouton |
>> > > ChromeOS
>> > >
>> > > =3D=3D
>> > >
>> > > The problem was cordova was installed with sudo.
>> > >
>> > > The eventual solution was to chown -R the cordova npm directory. At
>> > > first I tried editing sdk.dir in
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>>=20
>>/usr/local/lib/node_modules/cordova/lib/cordova-android/framework/local.p
>>roperties
>> > > which seemed like a bad idea.
>> > >
>> > > CB-2604 says there should have been a warning about a root install
>>but
>> > > I never got one.
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>>=20
>>https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CB-2604?focusedCommentId=3D13637291=
&p
>>age=3Dcom.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:comment-tabpanel#co=
mm
>>ent-13637291
>> > >
>> > > Thoughts on the best way to handle this?
>> > >
>> >
>>