Electron not found

[mar1n3r0]

Hi,

I am building ghetto-skype on Void Linux. The structure does seem different after building because the package.json is located in /opt/ghetto-skype/resources/app/ rather than /opt/ghetto-skype.

When I run npm --prefix /opt/ghetto-skype/resources/app/ start I get electron not found.

Here is the npm log:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok 1 verbose cli [ '/usr/bin/node', 1 verbose cli '/usr/bin/npm', 1 verbose cli '--prefix', 1 verbose cli '/opt/ghetto-skype/resources/app/', 1 verbose cli 'start' ] 2 info using npm@3.10.8 3 info using node@v6.9.1 4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ] 5 info lifecycle ghetto-skype@1.4.1~prestart: ghetto-skype@1.4.1 6 silly lifecycle ghetto-skype@1.4.1~prestart: no script for prestart, continuing 7 info lifecycle ghetto-skype@1.4.1~start: ghetto-skype@1.4.1 8 verbose lifecycle ghetto-skype@1.4.1~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true 9 verbose lifecycle ghetto-skype@1.4.1~start: PATH: /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/node-gyp-bin:/opt/ghetto-skype/resources/app/node_modules/.bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/bin 10 verbose lifecycle ghetto-skype@1.4.1~start: CWD: /opt/ghetto-skype/resources/app 11 silly lifecycle ghetto-skype@1.4.1~start: Args: [ '-c', 'electron .' ] 12 info lifecycle ghetto-skype@1.4.1~start: Failed to exec start script 13 verbose stack Error: ghetto-skype@1.4.1 start: electron . 13 verbose stack spawn ENOENT 13 verbose stack at ChildProcess. (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/spawn.js:33:16) 13 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:106:13) 13 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7) 13 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:877:16) 13 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:226:5) 14 verbose pkgid ghetto-skype@1.4.1 15 verbose cwd /opt/ghetto-skype/resources/app 16 error Linux 4.8.6_1 17 error argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "--prefix" "/opt/ghetto-skype/resources/app/" "start" 18 error node v6.9.1 19 error npm v3.10.8 20 error file sh 21 error code ELIFECYCLE 22 error errno ENOENT 23 error syscall spawn 24 error ghetto-skype@1.4.1 start: electron . 24 error spawn ENOENT 25 error Failed at the ghetto-skype@1.4.1 start script 'electron .'. 25 error Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed. 25 error If you do, this is most likely a problem with the ghetto-skype package, 25 error not with npm itself. 25 error Tell the author that this fails on your system: 25 error electron . 25 error You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with: 25 error npm bugs ghetto-skype 25 error Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via: 25 error npm owner ls ghetto-skype 25 error There is likely additional logging output above. 26 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

What could it be ?

P.S. I can test run it without a problem. And yes, this is a great neat alternative to the official client.

Thank you.

[code-hunger]

Have you installed electron? From the error log it seems it's just not installed. Install it and then try again.

[mar1n3r0]

Thanks for replying and sorry for the delayed response. I don't have electron as a package on my distro(Void Linux). Probably that's the issue. Although it seemed self-contained in the ghetto-skype package itself ?

[code-hunger]

On my arch linux electron is a dependency of ghetto-skype.

As I see there's no package electron in Void Linux so you'll have to install it manually.
(which, as per https://github.com/electron/electron, is as simple as running npm install electron -g)