"Unable to find electron-prebuilt's version number"

[natevw]

As described in the Electron documentation and this module's README, I simply installed via npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild and attempted to use via ./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild.

This only resulted in an error message:

Unable to find electron-prebuilt's version number, either install it or specify an explicit version

[natevw]

It appears that this package requires npm install electron-prebuilt --save-dev before it will work as described in its docs. Shouldn't it be listed in its peerDependencies then?

[anaisbetts]

Shouldn't it be listed in its peerDependencies then?

No, because you don't actually need electron-prebuilt, you can specify everything yourself, it's just the Easy Mode that needs electron-prebuilt

[lseongjoo]

I have the same problem doing the Easy Way.

electron --version
v 0.30.3

[imskull]

Same problem +1

[lseongjoo]

It shows the error message but installed npm modules just works without executing the command line.

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Same problem +1

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[black-snow]

Yeah... should be added to the "easy way" docs then. Having the same issue here.

[anaisbetts]

I'll look into this soon

[JeevanJain]

Got error after installing electron-rebuild

An unhandled error occurred inside electron-rebuild
Unable to find electron-prebuilt's version number, either install it or specify an explicit version

[Luiz-N]

+1

[yatashashank]

+1