"shasum check failed" Error while installing Phonegap
cordova, macos, node.js, npm
Solution
Try this:
sudo npm install https://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-1.3.19.tgz
then
sudo npm install -g phonegap
The problem on my checksum was caused by https://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-1.3.19.tgz
Problem
I have problem while installing PhoneGap on my Mac OS machine using: ``` sudo npm install -g phonegap ``` Error message: ``` npm ERR! Error: shasum check failed for /Users/MYUSER/tmp/npm-33966-l4NZ7A8D/1387281663617-0.9133979633916169/tmp.tgz npm ERR! Expected: dee5a33ff04d7217194dc1ad1342e3a441761942 npm ERR! Actual: ab7d89ca1f31db14db047d01222dd968649cfb50 npm ERR! at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/sha/index.js:38:8 npm ERR! at ReadStream.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/sha/index.js:85:7) npm ERR! at ReadStream.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:120:20) npm ERR! at _stream_readable.js:896:16 npm ERR! at process._tickCallback (node.js:599:11) npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this *entire* log, npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at: npm ERR! <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues> npm ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0 npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "phonegap" npm ERR! cwd /Users/HummusawY npm ERR! node -v v0.11.10-pre npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.17 npm ERR! npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR! /Users/MYUSER/npm-debug.log npm ERR! not ok code 0 ```