Supposedly Missing Dependencies

[cjduncana]

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Please describe your issue:

When I run any electron-forge command, including init and import, I receive an error message that says that I am missing dependencies for Electron. I have both Node.js v6 and Git installed on my computer. I also have Electron installed. I don't know of any other dependencies I would need.

Console output when you run electron-forge with the environment variable DEBUG=electron-forge:*. (Instructions on how to do so here). Please include the stack trace if one exists.

WARNING: DEBUG environment variable detected.  Progress indicators will be sent over electron-forge:lifecycle
  electron-forge:lifecycle Process Started: Checking your system +0ms
  electron-forge:lifecycle Process Succeeded: Checking your system +82ms
It looks like you are missing some dependencies you need to get Electron running.
Make sure you have git installed and Node.js version 6.0.0+

What command line arguments are you passing?

DEBUG=electron-forge:* electron-forge

[MarshallOfSound]

In a clean terminal can you run git -v and node -v and indicate the output here.

Also is node 6 actually in your path or is it added to your path in your bashrc (or similar)

[cjduncana]

@MarshallOfSound
I'm running Git v2.7.4 and Node v6.0.0. Node is in my path variable.

[MarshallOfSound]

Hahaha @cjduncana, just realized you said you had exactly node v6.0.0. We require something greater than 6.0.0, not equal to 😢

Kinda want to change this, also want to make sure people have a reasonable patch version.

You should update to latest v6 of node to get security and bug fixes 👍

https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-forge/blob/master/src/util/check-system.js#L11

[cjduncana]

I can confirm that by updating Node to v6.10.2 LTS, I was able to use electron-forge with no issues. Thanks, @MarshallOfSound.

[GuillermoBaldan]

I have the same error:

It looks like you are missing some dependencies you need to get Electron running. Make sure you have git installed and Node.js version 6.0.0+

But I see as this dependencies in my package.json:

{
  "name": "memoryassitant-electron",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "software para estudiantes  de asistencia en procesos de memorización de información diversa",
  "main": "index.js",
  "dependencies": {
    "electron-forge": "^5.2.4",
    "git": "^0.1.5",
    "node": "^14.0.0"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "electron": "^8.2.3"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "test": "test",
    "dev": "electron index.js",
    "test1": "electron frontend.html",
    "installer1": "electron-forge import"
  },
  "keywords": [
    "memory",
    "learning",
    "asistant"
  ],
  "author": "Guillermo Baldán",
  "license": "ISC"
}

As you can see I have git (^0.1.5) and node (^14.0.0) supposedly installed. I don´t understand why I get this error.

How can I solve it?

[joseaburt]

updating node is the solution.