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Rexhil Regmi
Rexhil Regmi

Reputation: 91

Can't install electron with npm, what could be wrong?

I am using Mac OSX sierra. I was using on el Capitan then I updated and now it's not working. I tried a clean installation of node and npm, even after that it's not working. I try "npm install electron --save-dev" but it get stuck on node install.js. I left it for an hour still no change.

I tried other packages from npm its working. I tried "npm install express" it worked. enter image description here

Upvotes: 5

Views: 6206

Answers (3)

Sajib Khan
Sajib Khan

Reputation: 24136

I also faced the same issue. It is downloading the files actually.

File size ~45MB so, it takes some time. You can use --verbose flag to see the download status details.

$ npm install -g electron --verbose

Upvotes: 4

ronchi
ronchi

Reputation: 41

electron will download from remote, maybe you can try to use proxy or just use cnpm just as @Claim Yang said or try yarn yarn, hope that help you.

Upvotes: 0

Claim Yang
Claim Yang

Reputation: 329

This usually caused by an error of your network. You computer cannot connect to the source of the files mentioned in install.js (not npm respositories), or running at a very low speed. You may try npm install -g cnpm --registry=https://registry.npm.taobao.org then cnpm install electron And probably wait for several minutes?

Be patient.

Upvotes: 3

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