title: Cordova install on Linux
body: <p>Does anyone know how to install Cordova on Ubuntu/xUbuntu?</p>
  
  <p>My attempts at executing <a href="https://npmjs.org/package/cordova">npm install cordova</a> as directed from the link and other sources don't work.</p>
  
  <p>I get the following long error message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>root@li141-82:/var/www/mysite# npm install cordova
  npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova
  
  npm ERR! Error: failed to fetch from registry: cordova
  npm ERR!     at /usr/share/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/get.js:139:12
  npm ERR!     at cb (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:31:9)
  npm ERR!     at Request._callback (/usr/share/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:136:18)
  npm ERR!     at Request.callback (/usr/lib/nodejs/request/main.js:119:22)
  npm ERR!     at Request.&lt;anonymous&gt; (/usr/lib/nodejs/request/main.js:212:58)
  npm ERR!     at Request.emit (events.js:88:20)
  npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.&lt;anonymous&gt; (/usr/lib/nodejs/request/main.js:412:12)
  npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.g (events.js:156:14)
  npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:67:17)
  npm ERR!     at HTTPParser.parserOnIncomingClient [as onIncoming] (http.js:1256:7)
  npm ERR! You may report this log at:
  npm ERR!     &lt;http://bugs.debian.org/npm&gt;
  npm ERR! or use
  npm ERR!     reportbug --attach /var/www/mysite/npm-debug.log npm
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! System Linux 3.11.6-x86_64-linode35
  npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "cordova"
  npm ERR! cwd /var/www/mysite
  npm ERR! node -v v0.6.19
  npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.4
  npm ERR! message failed to fetch from registry: cordova
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
  npm ERR!     /var/www/mysite/npm-debug.log
  npm not ok
  </code></pre>