Installing the Cordova CLI

The CLI is the npm 2,036 package cordova, installed globally with -g. On Windows, or with Node from nvm 95,199 , type npm install -g cordova. With a system-wide Node on Linux or macOS the global prefix is /usr/local, which only root may write, so either add sudo or give npm a prefix you own:

npm install -g cordova --prefix ~/npm-global
export PATH=~/npm-global/bin:$PATH     # add this line to ~/.profile to keep it
cordova -v

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13.0.0

The global CLI is only a driver: each project records its own platform versions (Adding Platforms), and npx cordova@13 runs a given CLI release without installing it.