npm phonegap install fails, trying to use inexistent .staging files

[asoaresfil]

Please see terminal info:

Darwin 15.2.0
npm ERR! argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "phonegap"
npm ERR! node v4.2.4
npm ERR! npm  v3.5.2
npm ERR! path /usr/local/lib/node_modules/.staging/async-57de1878
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall rename

npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/.staging/async-57de1878' -> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/phonegap/node_modules/localtunnel/node_modules/request/node_modules/form-data/node_modules/async'
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/.staging/async-57de1878' -> '/usr/local/lib/node_modules/phonegap/node_modules/localtunnel/node_modules/request/node_modules/form-data/node_modules/async'
npm ERR! enoent This is most likely not a problem with npm itself
npm ERR! enoent and is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent 

npm-debug.log.pdf

[joshribakoff]

Getting the same error

[enekochan]

I was having the same problem updating phonegap and fixed removing it, clearing cache and installing it again as referred in #10237:

$ sudo npm remove -g yo phonegap
$ npm cache clean
$ sudo npm install -g phonegap@latest

[othiym23]

Closing as a duplicate of #11265. Please see that issue if you want to help the CLI team isolate and fix the underlying bug. Thanks for everyone's time and input! Because (I believe) the underlying bug is a race condition, it comes and goes, but it's interesting that it almost always seems to affect Phonegap.

[rprokhorov]

I had the same issue. Command helped to me
sudo npm install -g npm
after that, intallation command (sudo npm install homebridge -g --unsafe-perm) compite without any errors