Electron: Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again

Created on 21 Jan 2017 · 54Comments · Source: electron/electron

Electron version: latest (That Try)
Operating system: Microsoft Windows [Versión 10.0.10586]

Expected behavior

Install from "npm" on Windows

Actual behavior

I can not use Electron because it is not installed correctly, despite using the shell in administrator mode. Note that when installing dependencies, it does not finish displaying the dependency tree that normally shows "npm".

How to reproduce

git clone https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start
cd electron-quick-start
npm install
npm start

> [email protected] start PATH\electron-quick-start
> electron .

PATH\electron-quick-start\node_modules\electron\index.js:9
throw new Error('Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/' + path.basename(__dirname) + ' and try installing again')
^

Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again
at Object.<anonymous> (PATH\electron-quick-start\node_modules\electron\index.js:9:9)
at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
at Module.require (module.js:497:17)
at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
at Object.<anonymous> (PATH\electron-quick-start\node_modules\electron\cli.js:3:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)

npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.10586
npm ERR! argv "C:\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Users\\{user_name}\\AppData\\Roaming\\npm\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "start"
npm ERR! node v6.9.4
npm ERR! npm v4.1.1
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! [email protected] start: electron .
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script 'electron .'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the electron-quick-start package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! electron .
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs electron-quick-start
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls electron-quick-start
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! PATH\electron-quick-start\npm-debug.log

npm-debug.txt

THANKS!

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LizanLycan

Most helpful comment

Try

npm install electron --verbose

It should output a progress bar for the download 👍

MarshallOfSound on 23 Jan 2017

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All 54 comments

despite using the shell in administrator mode

That's generally a really bad idea. Does your NPM/Node environment work without admin mode?

enlight on 22 Jan 2017

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I mean, have you tried doing what the error suggests and and deleting "node_modules/electron" and trying again?

MarshallOfSound on 22 Jan 2017

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@MarshallOfSound That's right, I did it several times.

It seems strange to me one thing, during the installation of modules, apparently does not finish correctly, because it remains as follows:

$ npm install

> [email protected] postinstall C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\Desktop\SisTelSim\SisTelSim_Dev\electron-quick-start\node_modules\electron
> node install.js
(It remains on hold)

LizanLycan on 22 Jan 2017

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@enlight I have installed multiple global instances, and they work correctly. I rarely have to install them with an administrator.

LizanLycan on 22 Jan 2017

@LizanLycan It remains on node install.js while it downloads Electron. Please let it finish and don't cancel it halfway through.

MarshallOfSound on 23 Jan 2017

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@MarshallOfSound Ok that's what I've been doing. I was looking for the size of the package to give me an idea of how long it might take, but I did not get it. I left it for over 1 hour. Still waiting, thanks for the comment.

LizanLycan on 23 Jan 2017

Try

npm install electron --verbose

It should output a progress bar for the download 👍

MarshallOfSound on 23 Jan 2017

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@MarshallOfSound Thank you very much. I can now see the download progress. I'll wait until I finish and comment. 👍

LizanLycan on 23 Jan 2017

@MarshallOfSound
Apparently little hard joy.

[email protected] postinstall C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules\electron
node install.js

Downloading electron-v1.4.15-win32-x64.zip
Error: read ECONNRESET
C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules\electron\install.js:46
throw err
^

Error: read ECONNRESET
at exports._errnoException (util.js:1022:11)
at TLSWrap.onread (net.js:569:26)
npm verb lifecycle [email protected]~postinstall: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
npm verb lifecycle [email protected]~postinstall: PATH: C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modulesnpm\bin\node-gyp-bin;C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules\electron\node_modules.bin;C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules.bin;C:\Program Files (x86)NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\WINDOWSsystem32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files\Intel\WiFi\bin\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Intel\WirelessCommon\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\;C:\nodejs\;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Windows Performance Toolkit\;C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa.dnx\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft DNX\Dnvm\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\130\Tools\Binn\;C:\Ruby22-x64\bin;C:\MinGW\bin;C:\MinGW\msys\bin\1.0;C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm
npm verb lifecycle [email protected]~postinstall: CWD: C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules\electron
npm info lifecycle [email protected]~postinstall: Failed to exec postinstall script
npm verb unlock done using C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm-cache_locksstaging-d38db31138d15c28.lock for C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules.staging
npm verb gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules\electron
npm verb gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules\electron
npm verb gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules\electron
npm verb gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules\electron
npm verb gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules\electron
npm verb gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules\electron
npm verb gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules\electron
npm verb gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules\electron
npm verb gentlyRm don't care about contents; nuking C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modules\electron
npm verb stack Error: [email protected] postinstall: node install.js
npm verb stack Exit status 1
npm verb stack at EventEmitter. (C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modulesnpm\lib\utils\lifecycle.js:279:16)
npm verb stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
npm verb stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:191:7)
npm verb stack at ChildProcess. (C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roamingnpm\node_modulesnpm\lib\utilsspawn.js:40:14)
npm verb stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
npm verb stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
npm verb stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:877:16)
npm verb stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:226:5)
npm verb pkgid [email protected]
npm verb cwd C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\Desktop\SisTelSim\SisTelSim_Dev\electron-quick-start
npm ERR! Windows_NT 10.0.10586
npm ERR! argv "C:\nodejs\node.exe" "C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js" "install" "electron" "-g" "--verbose"
npm ERR! node v6.9.4
npm ERR! npm v4.1.1
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE

npm ERR! [email protected] postinstall: node install.js
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] postinstall script 'node install.js'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the electron 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 information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs electron
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls electron
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm verb exit [ 1, true ]

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! C:\Users\Lizandro Zerpa\Desktop\SisTelSim\SisTelSim_Dev\electron-quick-startnpm-debug.log

LizanLycan on 23 Jan 2017

Looks like you're having some network issues (which are out of our control 😢 )

You can download the ZIP file manually in your browser from here and place it in your C:\Users\<username>\.electron folder. Then it won't need to download itself 👍

MarshallOfSound on 23 Jan 2017

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[email protected] start /home/nikhil/workspace/electron_demo/electron-quick-start
electron .

/home/nikhil/workspace/electron_demo/electron-quick-start/node_modules/electron/index.js:9
throw new Error('Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/' + path.basename(__dirname) + ' and try installing again')
^

Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again
at Object. (/home/nikhil/workspace/electron_demo/electron-quick-start/node_modules/electron/index.js:9:9)
at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
at Module.require (module.js:354:17)
at require (internal/module.js:12:17)
at Object. (/home/nikhil/workspace/electron_demo/electron-quick-start/node_modules/electron/cli.js:3:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:410:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)

npm ERR! Linux 4.4.0-59-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "start"
npm ERR! node v4.2.6
npm ERR! npm v3.5.2
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! [email protected] start: electron .
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start script 'electron .'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the electron-quick-start package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! electron .
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs electron-quick-start
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls electron-quick-start
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /home/nikhil/workspace/electron_demo/electron-quick-start/npm-debug.log

nikparmar on 23 Jan 2017

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@MarshallOfSound helped me to correct this by observing the download and installation process with:

npm install electron -g --verbose

With this command you will install global Electron. You can not cancel until the download process is complete. Delete the folder node_modules and reinstall.

LizanLycan on 23 Jan 2017

👍6

@LizanLycan
Was your solution to install electron both globally and locally? Or one or the other?

Please help...I've tried everything...

brandondtran on 19 Feb 2017

the modules dir include install.js, run and install it, the path.txt is written. It works

jiangtao on 21 Feb 2017

I figured out my problem. I had JavaScript errors in my Angular 2 components. For some reason if you have errors in your JavaScript, it'll just give you this electron installed incorrectly error.

brandondtran on 21 Feb 2017

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I had the same problem. I fixed it by removing all the folders that starts with the name electorn (around 5 were there) and ran npm install with verbose flag. npm i --verbose . Then it showed progress bar for electron binaries download and downloaded fine. It's mostly because of bad internet connection. yes, i was on a connection of 150kbps.

manojvignesh on 26 Feb 2017

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@LizanLycan + @manojvignesh - awesome suggestion!
with --verbose it makes it much more obvious if you're somehow interrupting the electron module download during node_modules install

ddaaggeett on 11 Mar 2017

Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again

ijry on 7 Jun 2017

👎18 😄2

Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again

ijry on 7 Jun 2017

👎8

Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again

ijry on 7 Jun 2017

👎10

@ijry you tried install with --vebose sentence?

LizanLycan on 7 Jun 2017

Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again

ijry on 7 Jun 2017

👎8

none useful , i try gooogle and google , never worked.................................

ijry on 7 Jun 2017

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This solved my issue:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42636151/electron-failed-to-install-correctly-please-delete-node-modules-and-try-instal

npm install electron-prebuilt --save-dev

Seems that you have to have a version of pre-built electron installed in same project.

justgeek on 22 Aug 2017

cnpm install electron -g --verbose

zhenghuahou on 26 Sep 2017

@MarshallOfSound thanks it works fine :)

naveenm21 on 11 Nov 2017

@nikparmar I got same error and you're using LINUX try this sudo npm install electron --verbose

rajnishcoder on 8 Dec 2017

I don't understand enough about npm to debug the underlying issue but it seems that the Electron API Demo App is not successfully running the "postinstall": "node install.js" task. This postinstall task does get listed when running npm install --verbose but it doesn't seem to run.
After installing, I have to manually run node node_modules/electron/install.js

abd3 on 6 Jan 2018

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target: 'electron-renderer'

webpack.config.js use this

channg on 21 Mar 2018

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try sudo npm install --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

sachithkadamba on 21 May 2018

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See in the message that it is saying that there is a directory where the global npm package is installed. In your case it is inside:
*PATH\electron-quick-start\node_modules*

So go to that directory and delete all the directory named prefixing electron.

Now run
npm install -g react-devtools

After that you are ready to roll.

To start the dev tools, write the following command.

react-devtools

itsmasud on 22 Nov 2018

try sudo npm install --unsafe-perm=true --allow-root

it works for me

Gecollsn on 22 Dec 2018

So npm start was working fine without errors.

I installed electron-builder and created a new package.json file for building the distribution.
When I do npm run dist it will succesfully create an exe installer for me and I can run and install app just fine.

But when I swap my package.json file back to original one and try to do npm start again I now get this error about electron failed to install correctly.

Not sure what is causing error, but the following SOLUTION worked for me:

Go to the directory node_modules/ and delete electron directory.

Then run npm install electron --save-dev

Now both npm start and npm run dist work fine without errors.

Found this solution here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42636151/electron-failed-to-install-correctly-please-delete-node-modules-and-try-instal

jshrek on 7 Jan 2019

I changed the package.json
from
"electron": "^4.0.1",
to

   "electron": "^4.1.1",
    "electron-packager": "^13.1.1",
    "electron-tabs": "^0.9.5",

then , npm install
it works. The window is appear. But I don't know why...

cadiron on 2 Sep 2019

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When I setup electron-quick-start with npm install and run with npm start then just nothing happens... I am on MacBook Pro with macOS Catalina... All electron apps just stopped working for me... I have tested to delete the globally installed electron and reinstall, deleted node_modules and reinitialized... I have even removed the npm cache... So I don't know what to do anymore...
When I manually run electron . then this is what I get:

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron/index.js:14
    throw new Error('Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again')
    ^

Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again
    at getElectronPath (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron/index.js:14:11)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron/index.js:18:18)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:774:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:785:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:641:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:556:12)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:681:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:16:16)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron/cli.js:3:16)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:774:30

KoStard on 29 Nov 2019

Hmm...
This is what I was getting:

$ npm start --verbose
npm info it worked if it ends with ok
npm verb cli [ '/usr/local/bin/node', '/usr/local/bin/npm', 'start', '--verbose' ]
npm info using [email protected]
npm info using [email protected]
npm verb run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
npm info lifecycle [email protected]~prestart: [email protected]
npm info lifecycle [email protected]~start: [email protected]
npm info lifecycle [email protected]~start: ignored because ignore-scripts is set to true [email protected]
npm info lifecycle [email protected]~poststart: [email protected]
npm verb exit [ 0, true ]
npm timing npm Completed in 91ms
npm info ok

So I turned off the ignore-scripts with npm config set ignore-scripts false command and this is what I get now... ELIFECYCLE error.

$ npm start

> [email protected] start /Users/.../Documents/Javascript/electron-quick-start
> electron .

/Users/.../Documents/Javascript/electron-quick-start/node_modules/electron/index.js:14
    throw new Error('Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again')
    ^

Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again
    at getElectronPath (/Users/.../Documents/Javascript/electron-quick-start/node_modules/electron/index.js:14:11)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/.../Documents/Javascript/electron-quick-start/node_modules/electron/index.js:18:18)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:774:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:785:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:641:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:556:12)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:681:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:16:16)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/.../Documents/Javascript/electron-quick-start/node_modules/electron/cli.js:3:16)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:774:30)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `electron .`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] start 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!     /Users/.../.npm/_logs/2019-11-29T16_52_39_548Z-debug.log

KoStard on 29 Nov 2019

Hmm... What is happening? When I use yarn it works...
https://github.com/electron/electron-quick-start/issues/155#issuecomment-343283182

yarn run start

KoStard on 29 Nov 2019

Been waiting, but I seem to see him fail to find the installer.

F:\testelectron-quick-start>npm install electron --verbose
npm info it worked if it ends with ok
npm verb cli [ 'C:\Program Files\nodejs\node.exe',
npm verb cli 'C:\Users\Administrator\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\npm\bin\npm-cli.js',
npm verb cli 'install',
npm verb cli 'electron',
npm verb cli '--verbose' ]
npm info using [email protected]
npm info using [email protected]
npm verb npm-session 5dd5cd74a42cab9c
npm http fetch GET 304 http://registry.npm.taobao.org/electron 173ms (from cache)
npm timing stage:loadCurrentTree Completed in 374ms
npm timing stage:loadIdealTree:cloneCurrentTree Completed in 2ms
npm timing stage:loadIdealTree:loadShrinkwrap Completed in 93ms
npm http fetch GET 304 http://registry.npm.taobao.org/@electron%2fget 61ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 http://registry.npm.taobao.org/extract-zip 95ms (from cache)
npm http fetch GET 304 http://registry.npm.taobao.org/@types%2fnode 100ms (from cache)
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npm http fetch GET 304 http://registry.npm.taobao.org/got 106ms (from cache)
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[email protected] postinstall F:\testelectron-quick-start\node_moduleselectron
node install.js

873261648 on 12 Dec 2019

I found a way in Chinese region.

Step 1. npm install electron
Step 2. download the electron zip from https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v7.1.7/electron-v7.1.7-darwin-x64.zip
Step 3. copy the zip to /electron/dist
Step 4. vi ./node_modules/electron/path.txt and input /electron-v7.1.7-darwin-x64/Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron

Finaly, you can run npm start.

But, it is not a good way to start electron.

HarwordLiu on 20 Dec 2019

👍2

Give it a try. 🤓
https://github.com/pangxieju/electron-fix

pangxieju on 2 Jan 2020

👍2

I have tried to follow most of the guidelines and everything installs correctly but I still get the same issue.

tongisulaiman on 2 Jan 2020

If you are Chinese the following instructions may be useful to you.

Open your chrome and paste the url https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v7.1.7/electron-v7.1.7-darwin-x64.zip, you should change the version to correct version and this url based on macOS if your are Windows try debug install.js get the correct url
Save the zip to any folder, for example, Desktop. Now your zip file path is /Users/yourname/Desktop/electron-v7.1.7-darwin-x64.zip. Note the version
Open then node_modules/electron/install.js comment the following code, and add new line :

extractFile(myPath in the second step)

// downloads if not cached
// downloadArtifact({
//   version,
//   artifactName: 'electron',
//   force: process.env.force_no_cache === 'true',
//   cacheRoot: process.env.electron_config_cache,
//   platform: process.env.npm_config_platform || process.platform,
//   arch: process.env.npm_config_arch || process.arch
// }).then((zipPath) => extractFile(zipPath)).catch((err) => onerror(err))
// Node: the new line
extractFile(myPath in the second step)

Run install.js node install.js
Run start script of your project : npm start

最好的方法还是使用淘宝镜像:
根目录下新建一个.npmrc文件, 文件内容

electron-mirror=https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/electron/
electron-custom-dir=8.0.2
// 下面这个是我自己用到的.. 上面两个是针对electron的
node-sqlite3_binary_host_mirror=https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/

版本根据自己的需求来

mqliutie on 7 Jan 2020

👍3 🎉1

Solved on raspberry Pi4 with:
npm i -D electron --arch=armv7l

AlgoSolu on 7 Jan 2020

👍1

If you use webpack to build project, you should add electron to the externals of your webpack config .

lishoulong on 8 Jan 2020

👍2

on Mac after installing electron, try:

sudo node /node_modules/electron/install.js

*sudo required

lucastlima on 13 Jan 2020

👍2

@justgeek,

This solved my issue:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42636151/electron-failed-to-install-correctly-please-delete-node-modules-and-try-instal

npm install electron-prebuilt --save-dev

Seems that you have to have a version of pre-built electron installed in same project.

Your suggestion solved my issue. But do we need to install both Electron@latest and [email protected] ??

ravivit9 on 16 Jan 2020

Personally, I tried all suggestions here and nothing seemed to get past this issue. I'm on a mac and it could be a proxy issue on my end.

chawk on 24 Jan 2020

On windows , I was just trying out electron for the first time, went through the official docs and couldn't even run the quick-start app due to the same error, tried a lot of fixes nothing works. Going to manually copy-paste the .zip provided : (

gaharavara on 25 Jan 2020

Node install.js was failing due to permissions for me so the following solved my issue.

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

No need to download prebuilt binaries or older versions of electron.

fonym on 17 Feb 2020

👍1

Give it a try. 🤓
https://github.com/pangxieju/electron-fix

thanks! It maked my project worked!

callect on 7 Mar 2020

Give it a try. 🤓 Open https://github.com/pangxieju/electron-fix

1、$ npm install electron-fix -D

2、Edit file ‘package.json’
"scripts": {
"fix": "electron-fix start"
}

3、npm run fix

pangxieju on 7 Mar 2020

For those who aren't downloading from Hong Kong and still haven't figured out the issue, I finally noticed one of the comments in this long chain.

When I ran npm i electron -g --verbose, I noticed the following line:

npm info lifecycle [email protected]~postinstall: ignored because ignore-scripts is set to true [email protected]

Doing the following fixed my issue:

I don't understand enough about npm to debug the underlying issue but it seems that the Electron API Demo App is not successfully running the "postinstall": "node install.js" task. This postinstall task does get listed when running npm install --verbose but it doesn't seem to run.
After installing, I have to manually run node node_modules/electron/install.js

Since i installed globally, I used the install.js located in the global install directory, ./AppData/Roaming/npm/

Bobakanoosh on 23 Mar 2020

Looks like you're having some network issues (which are out of our control 😢 )

You can download the ZIP file manually in your browser from here and place it in your C:\Users\<username>\.electron folder. Then it won't need to download itself 👍

While I did not have any network issues, the issue was due to a faulty electron installation when npm install was run for the first time. Just deleted .electron-gyp folder in C:\Users\ folder and issued nom install ad then it worked.