Install electron on ubuntu

Question

When I try to install electron on Ubuntu 15.04 using

sudo npm install electron-prebuilt -g

This is what I get

/usr/local/bin/electron -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/cli.js

> electron-prebuilt@0.28.3 postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron-prebuilt
> node install.js

Downloading electron-v0.28.3-linux-x64.zip
Error: tunneling socket could not be established, cause=139936635598656:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_clnt.c:795:


/usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/install.js:15
  throw err
        ^
Error: tunneling socket could not be established, cause=139936635598656:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_clnt.c:795:

npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
npm WARN For further explanations, please read
/usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian

npm ERR! electron-prebuilt@0.28.3 postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 8
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the electron-prebuilt@0.28.3 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the electron-prebuilt package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR!     node install.js
npm ERR! You can get their info via:
npm ERR!     npm owner ls electron-prebuilt
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! System Linux 3.19.0-18-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "electron-prebuilt"
npm ERR! cwd /usr/bin
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.25
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.21
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /usr/bin/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

I tried

Creating a system link for node with the command: ln -s node nodejs in the /usr/bin/ folder

and

installing node-legacy package: sudo apt-get install node-legacy as suggested here with no luck.

Couldn't find anything more on other forums.So please help. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Following steps worked for me: (Assuming node and npm are already installed)

1. Updated the npm package to latest:-

   sudo npm install npm@latest -g

2. Installed electron with following switches:

   sudo npm install electron -g –-verbose --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

Corrections/Suggestion from experienced people are always welcome. Hope it help to somebody.

Answer 2

use:

ELECTRON_MIRROR= https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/electron/ npm install

Answer 3

Most likely you are behind a proxy.

You can disable it or make npm install work behind a proxy (see this question).

Answer 4

You typed it wrong install nodejs-legacy

sudo apt-get install nodejs-legacy

to fix it and then continue installing electron

sudo npm install electron-prebuilt -g

Answer 5

sudo npm install electron -g

这对我有用

Answer 6

First install latest version of node and npm by

$ curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo bash -
$ sudo apt-get install -y nodejs

the latest npm version is now 6.9.0 , check the npm version with npm --version if the npm version is 6.4.1 just first update npm by

$ npm install -g npm

If you have problem with permissions caused by sudo then you can cd into .npm-global

$ cd /home/user_home_directory/.npm-global/

using chmod command to change permissions of all files and directories in this folder:

$ sudo chmod 777 * -R

After installation you must add this line to the end of .bashrc file:

export PATH="/home/user_home_directory/.npm-global/bin:$PATH"

After saving .bashrc just source it by

$ source .bashrc

After all done, you can install electron globally by

$ npm install -g electron

Answer 7

I reached here because my final app wasn't installing on ubuntu. In case someone has the same problem go to the build location and run from terminal using : sudo dpkg -i <name of your install/build file> ps I didn't find this solution anywhere else which is why I'm posting it here

Answer 8

Using this helps me:

sudo npm install electron -g  --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

without --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root I got error message like this:

> electron@10.1.5 postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdtemp 
'/usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron/electron-download-rSlUcU'
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! electron@10.1.5 postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the electron@10.1.5 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional 
logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-11-13T04_43_27_809Z-debug.log