On 23 Oct,2013, at 18:55 , Apostolos Emmanouilidis <aemmanou@redhat.com> wrote:

Step 4. if a specific Cordova version e.g 3.0.0 is defined in Grunt file then we will perform a git checkout of the specific tag inside the cordova-android and cordova-ios. This way, the projects which will be created on the next step, are compatible with a specific Cordova version.

I think you can install older versions with sudo npm install -g phonegap@<version> where <version> > 2.8 maybe that will simplify things a bit.