Install electron on ubuntu - node.js

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)
Updated the npm package to latest:-
sudo npm install npm#latest -g
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
This worked for me

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>
p.s. 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