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Kajal Joshi
Kajal Joshi

Reputation: 21

electron install error : Generated checksum for "electron-v2.0.2-win32-x64.zip" did not match expected checksum

I want to install latest electron version in my existing angular application.So I followed npm command to install it. Command : npm i electron@latest

Expected Behavior Electron should installed successfully.

Actual Behavior So, Whenever I tried to install electron, after downloading zip file and SAMSUN.txt file , it is throwing below error....

Error: Generated checksum for "electron-v2.0.2-win32-x64.zip" did not match expected checksum.
at ChecksumMismatchError.ErrorWithFilename (E:\CityLawElectron\node_modules\electron-download\node_modules\sumchecker\build.js:41:124)
at new ChecksumMismatchError (E:\CityLawElectron\node_modules\electron-download\node_modules\sumchecker\build.js:56:133)
at Hash. (E:\CityLawElectron\node_modules\electron-download\node_modules\sumchecker\build.js:203:22)
at emitNone (events.js:106:13)
at Hash.emit (events.js:208:7)
at emitReadable_ (_stream_readable.js:513:10)
at emitReadable (_stream_readable.js:507:7)
at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:274:7)
at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:250:11)
at Hash.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:208:10)

Please note that I have tried to clear my npm cache using npm cache clean --force command and tried to install. but it didn't work.

I also tried to install electron globally using npm i -g electron@latest, but that approach also didn't work.

Please provide solution as soon as possible because I m really stuck at this problem.

Electron Version: 2.0.2
Operating System : windows
node version : 8.11.2
npm version : 6.1.0
Last known working Electron version:

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2641

Answers (1)

Ravindra Vairagi
Ravindra Vairagi

Reputation: 1083

We can solve this issue by using following steps (OS - Windows 10)

  1. Delete "SHASUMS256.txt-x.x.xx" file from "C:\Users{{UserName}}.electron".
  2. Delete Cache folder from "C:\Users{{UserName}}\AppData\Local\electron".
  3. Delete electron from node_modules folder.

  4. Then install electron globally and locally by using following commands -

    npm init -y //Note: The -y flag provides default options automatically

    npm install electron -g //install electron globally

    npm install electron --save-dev --save-exact //install electron as devdependencies

If you are using typescript then install it as global using below command-

npm install -g typescript

Above steps may help you.

Upvotes: 1

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