Cannot install plugin "Failed to fetch plugin"

[tobiasmuecksch]

I've started a brand new Cordova project and tried to add this plugin, but ran into the following error

The command I've entered:

> cordova plugin add cordova-custom-config --save

The error:

Error: Failed to fetch plugin git+https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-custom-config.git via registry.
Probably this is either a connection problem, or plugin spec is incorrect.
Check your connection and plugin name/version/URL.
Failed to get absolute path to installed module

[ERROR] An error occurred while running cordova plugin add cordova-custom-config --save (exit code 1).

Installing other plugins works without any problems. Is it just me or is this a known error?

[dpa99c]

Something is screwy there because you've referenced the plugin by its ID on npm, cordova-custom-config, yet the URL it corresponds to is the github URL.

I would do the following:

• Remove the plugin (if it exists at all) : cordova plugin rm cordova-custom-config
• Remove it from node_modules/ (if it exists): rm -Rf node_modules/cordova-custom-config
• Remove any entry for it from plugins/fetch.json
• Try adding it again

If that fails, try adding direct from the Github repo:

cordova plugin add https://github.com/dpa99c/cordova-custom-config.git

Also make sure you're using cordova@7 CLI.

[tobiasmuecksch]

Thank you for the fast reply, you've pointed me in the right direction.

In my case, one of my plugins had a broken dependency reference to this plugin which somehow interfered...