ERROR: when installing electron?

Question

When i am installing Electron using npm install electron-prebuilt --save-dev, I am getting the following error:

 Error: end of central directory record signature not found
     at C:\Users\madhava\Desktop\New folder\node_modules\electron-prebuilt\node_modules\extract-zip\node_modules\yauzl\index.js:98:14
     at C:\Users\madhava\Desktop\New folder\node_modules\electron-prebuilt\node_modules\extract-zip\node_modules\yauzl\index.js:342:5
     at C:\Users\madhava\Desktop\New folder\node_modules\electron-prebuilt\node_modules\extract-zip\node_modules\yauzl\node_modules\fd-slicer\index.js:32:7
     at FSReqWrap.wrapper [as oncomplete] (fs.js:527:17)
 npm ERR! Windows_NT 6.1.7600
 npm ERR! argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs
 \\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "electron-prebuilt" "--save-dev"

 npm ERR! node v0.12.4
 npm ERR! npm  v2.10.1
 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! 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! Please include the following file with any support request:
 npm ERR!     C:\Users\madhava\Desktop\New folder\npm-debug.log

Answer 1

I had this problem when trying to install on a dodgy connection, which meant I had some bad zips left over. Solution was (on OSX at least to remove the ~/.electron folder, and run npm install electron-prebuilt again. Not sure where the zips get saved to on Windows though.

Answer 2

I had the same issue when i was installing electron globally.here is what i did

rm -rf ~/.electron/
rm -rf ~/.atom/
npm cache clear
npm install

after this I ran the command again..

npm install electron -g

if this doesn't work,you can use the prebuilt version

npm install electron-prebuilt

Here is the resource i used..

Answer 3

This is error is because the version of glibc on your host is too old for some of electron's dependencies. Looks like you're using Windows. I ran into this issue with Debian Wheezy The only solution I found was to install a newer version of glibc via this hack:

How to upgrade glibc from version 2.13 to 2.15 on Debian?

You'll need to do something similar with windows.

Answer 4

When you try to install electron on macOS then the command is as follows:

sudo npm install -g electron