Install electron on ubuntu

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

> [email protected] 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! [email protected] postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 8
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] 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)

1. Updated the npm package to latest:-

   sudo npm install npm@latest -g

2. 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