Failed to install modules: ["electron-prebuilt-compile@2.0.8"]

[andreashuber69]

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Please describe your issue:
I'm getting Failed to install modules: ["electron-prebuilt-compile@2.0.8"] when attempting to import a pretty bare-bone electron project. electron-prebuilt-compile@2.0.8 does not exist yet, 2.0.7 is the latest version.

Console output when you run electron-forge with the environment variable DEBUG=electron-forge:*:

npx electron-forge import . 
✔ Checking your system
? WARNING: We will now attempt to import: "/home/andreas/git/net-worth/store/ele
ctron".  This will involve modifying some files, are you sure you want to contin
ue? Yes
✔ Initializing Git Repository
? Do you want us to change the "main" attribute of your package.json?  If you ar
e currently using babel and pointing to a "build" directory say yes. No
? Do you want us to remove the "electron-packager" dependency in package.json? E
lectron Forge already uses this module as a transitive dependency. Yes
? Do you want us to update the "start" script to instead call the electron-forge
 task "electron-forge start" Yes
? Do you want us to update the "package" script to instead call the electron-for
ge task "electron-forge package" Yes
? Do you want us to update the "make" script to instead call the electron-forge 
task "electron-forge make" Yes
✔ Writing modified package.json file
✔ Pruning deleted modules
✖ Installing dependencies

An unhandled error has occurred inside Forge:
Failed to install modules: ["electron-prebuilt-compile@2.0.8"]

With output: Exited with status 1
Error: Failed to install modules: ["electron-prebuilt-compile@2.0.8"]

With output: Exited with status 1
    at /home/andreas/.npm/_npx/25202/lib/node_modules/electron-forge/dist/util/install-dependencies.js:55:13
    at Generator.throw (<anonymous>)
    at Generator.tryCatcher (/home/andreas/.npm/_npx/25202/lib/node_modules/electron-forge/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
    at PromiseSpawn._promiseRejected (/home/andreas/.npm/_npx/25202/lib/node_modules/electron-forge/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/generators.js:107:10)
    at Promise._settlePromise (/home/andreas/.npm/_npx/25202/lib/node_modules/electron-forge/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:576:26)
    at Promise._settlePromise0 (/home/andreas/.npm/_npx/25202/lib/node_modules/electron-forge/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:614:10)
    at Promise._settlePromises (/home/andreas/.npm/_npx/25202/lib/node_modules/electron-forge/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:689:18)
    at Async._drainQueue (/home/andreas/.npm/_npx/25202/lib/node_modules/electron-forge/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:133:16)
    at Async._drainQueues (/home/andreas/.npm/_npx/25202/lib/node_modules/electron-forge/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:143:10)
    at Immediate.Async.drainQueues (/home/andreas/.npm/_npx/25202/lib/node_modules/electron-forge/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:17:14)
    at runCallback (timers.js:810:20)
    at tryOnImmediate (timers.js:768:5)
    at processImmediate [as _immediateCallback] (timers.js:745:5)

What command line arguments are you passing?

npx electron-forge import .

What does your config.forge data in package.json look like?

N/A

Please provide either a failing minimal testcase (with a link to the code) or detailed steps to
reproduce your problem. Using electron-forge init is a good starting point, if that is not the
source of your problem.

https://github.com/andreashuber69/net-worth/tree/master/store/electron

[malept]

We can't do anything about that, please file a bug in the electron-prebuilt-compile project.

[andreashuber69]

Ok, thanks. For anybody else getting this message: You can work around this by nailing the version down in your package.json before importing, with "electron": "X.Y.Z" (note the missing ^), with X.Y.Z being the last published version of electron-prebuilt-compile.