error when installing webtorrent-hybrid

[ahundt]

I ran into a problem installing webtorrent-hybrid:

$ webtorrent-hybrid --help
/usr/lib/node_modules/webtorrent-hybrid/node_modules/electron/index.js:9
  throw new Error('Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again')
  ^

Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/webtorrent-hybrid/node_modules/electron/index.js:9:9)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:678:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:689:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:589:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:528:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:520:3)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:626:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:20:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/webtorrent-hybrid/node_modules/electron-eval/lib/index.js:13:16)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:678:30)
cpaxton@babylon:~/.costar$ rm -rf /usr/lib/node_modules/electr^C
cpaxton@babylon:~/.costar$ ls /usr/lib/node_modules/electron
ls: cannot access /usr/lib/node_modules/electron: No such file or directory
cpaxton@babylon:~/.costar$ sudo npm install -g electron
/usr/bin/electron -> /usr/lib/node_modules/electron/cli.js

> electron@2.0.2 postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

$ sudo npm install electron -g
/usr/bin/electron -> /usr/lib/node_modules/electron/cli.js

> electron@2.0.2 postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

(node:15087) ExperimentalWarning: The fs.promises API is experimental
/usr/lib/node_modules/electron/install.js:47
  throw err
  ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/electron/.electron'
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! electron@2.0.2 postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the electron@2.0.2 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/cpaxton/.npm/_logs/2018-06-14T00_39_24_833Z-debug.log

Here is the version information:

$ npm --version
5.6.0
$ which npm
/usr/bin/npm
$ ls /usr/local/bin/npm
ls: cannot access /usr/local/bin/npm: No such file or directory
$ node --version
v10.1.0

[wdfsinap]

I have the same problem. please help to solve the issue. thanks

[neuronsupport]

have you installed electron?

npm install electron

[DiegoRBaquero]

You don't need to install Electron on your own (Plus you'd be installing v2, we use v1).

Would be nice to have more detail as to why Electron install, as a dependency, is failing.

[DiegoRBaquero]

Migrated to wrtc