Problems installing phoneGap on Terminal

Question

Hey I'm following the instructions of phoneGap and while using the following command in terminal

sudo npm install -g phonegap

I get the following errors

npm ERR! registry error parsing json

and

npm ERR! fetch failed https://registry.npmjs.org/colors/-/colors-0.6.0-1.tgz
npm ERR! fetch failed https://registry.npmjs.org/node-static/-/node-static-0.7.0.tgz
npm ERR! fetch failed https://registry.npmjs.org/cordova/-/cordova-3.1.0-0.1.0.tgz
npm ERR! fetch failed https://registry.npmjs.org/phonegap-build/-/phonegap-build-0.8.4.tgz

and

npm ERR! network socket hang up
npm ERR! network This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! network and is related to network connectivity.
npm ERR! network In most cases you are behind a proxy or have bad network settings.
npm ERR! network 
npm ERR! network If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the
npm ERR! network 'proxy' config is set properly.  See: 'npm help config'

npm ERR! System Darwin 13.0.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "phonegap"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/kaldenficklin
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.21
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.11
npm ERR! code ECONNRESET
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/kaldenficklin/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

I downloaded node.js before hand like instructed to. Can anyone tell me what i'm doing wrong and how to fix it??

Answer 1

As mentioned here https://stackoverflow.com/a/13119867/1955071, please use following command and then install phonegap,

npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org/

Afterwards, in case you get this error "Error: No compatible version found: phonegap" then add force flag to install it,

sudo npm install -gf phonegap