[Bug]: Installing Electron 19.0.0 via npm returns a 404 error

[jooy2]

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Electron Version

19.0.0

What operating system are you using?

Windows

Operating System Version

Windows 10 21H2

What arch are you using?

x64

Last Known Working Electron version

19.0.0

Expected Behavior

Electron 19.0.0 should be installed normally.

Actual Behavior

I'm getting the below installation problem on the console and the installation doesn't proceed.

$ npm i electron
npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/electron/-/electron-19.0.0.tgz - Not found
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404  'electron@https://registry.npmjs.org/electron/-/electron-19.0.0.tgz' is not in this registry.
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git url.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\user\AppData\Local\npm-cache\_logs\2022-05-24T00_06_18_595Z-debug-0.log

How to Reproduce

1. mkdir test && npm init.
2. npm install electron

Testcase Gist URL

No response

Additional Information

No response

[andmm]

Same issue here.

[MarshallOfSound]

This appears to be a bug with the npm registry itself, it knows the version was published but can't download the tarball 🤔

[sprout2000]

Same with Yarn 1.x.

% yarn add -D electron

error An unexpected error occurred: "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/electron/-/electron-19.0.0.tgz: Request failed \"404 Not Found\"".

[theolivenbaum]

Same here

npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/electron/-/electron-19.0.0.tgz
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404  'electron@19.0.0' is not in the npm registry.
npm ERR! 404 You should bug the author to publish it (or use the name yourself!)
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git url

[kunalfleethawks]

Same here. Our deployments are failing

[lestherbualan]

same here, throws error 404 when running npm i electron

npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/electron/-/electron-19.0.0.tgz - Not found
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404  'electron@https://registry.npmjs.org/electron/-/electron-19.0.0.tgz' is not 
in this registry.
npm ERR! 404 You should bug the author to publish it (or use the name yourself!)
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git url.

[leagug]

same here

npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/electron/-/electron-19.0.0.tgz - Not found
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404  'electron@https://registry.npmjs.org/electron/-/electron-19.0.0.tgz' is not in this registry.
npm ERR! 404 You should bug the author to publish it (or use the name yourself!)
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git URL.

[andelf]

Fixed temporily by adding the following rules to package.json, to lock electron version along all dependency paths:

  "resolutions": {
    "**/electron": "x.y.z" // replace this with current stable electron version
  }

[chrisclausen90]

Same for e as well. Calling the GET request URL is returning

{"error":"Not found"}

[antiyro]

Same here :, 404 not found error

[ghost]

Same here.

[indingpig]

yeah……Same here.

[jane-pm]

Same here. [Win11/MacOS/Ubuntu20]

[ashishsalve]

Same issue on MacOS

npm install electron --save-dev

npm ERR! code E404
npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/electron/-/electron-19.0.0.tgz - Not found
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404 'electron@https://registry.npmjs.org/electron/-/electron-19.0.0.tgz' is not in this registry.
npm ERR! 404 You should bug the author to publish it (or use the name yourself!)
npm ERR! 404
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git url.

[maximebaudoin]

Same issue on Win11. npm ERR! code E404

[langyo]

Same here

I've tried to rewrite npm config and yarn config, but it still occured.

[ashishsalve]

Temporary fix:

npm install --save-dev electron@18.2.4

[t57ser]

This is an issue with npm:
https://status.npmjs.org/incidents/4zkt80fxq1nb

[andmm]

Temporary fix:

npm install --save-dev electron@18.2.4

Version 18.3.0 is working fine :)

[theRealinsane]

facing the same issue ;-;

[gaibz]

I think some electron autobuild is not yet pushed to the npm registry ..
version 18.x work fine btw ..

[Fr4nZ82]

its fixed... now it works

[tieb62]

Solved @jooy2

[MarshallOfSound]

NPM appears to have resolved this issue. In the future can we avoid a giant stream of "also broken for me" comments, they don't help especially when as originally commented there was nothing we could do about this particular issue.