running browser fails "electron: not found"; building electron fails

[smcnally]

Running Ubuntu 15.04. Successfully built with help from the Issue 214 thread.

Can successfully run server and tests; running browser fails with "electron: not found."

Despite main README suggesting not needing to build electron, am doing so using these instructions.

got through much of the build Debug target process, then failed with:

clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

Will try again later

[Adejair]

I have same error, I solved this error installing electron-prebuilt from npm, npm install electron-prebuilt --save

I advise not to do it, because has electron-prebuilt prepared to use in brave, to use it is easy.

git clone https://github.com/brave/electron-prebuilt 
cd electron-prebuilt
./electron PATH_TO_BRAVE

[smcnally]

Thanks, @Adejair. npm install completed successfully with a warning:

npm WARN ENOENT ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '~/browser-laptop/node_modules/electron-rebuild/package.json'

After cloning the repo, I've got an electron executable in

/browser-laptop/electron-prebuilt/dist

but not in

/browser-laptop/electron-prebuilt/

From the latter dir,

./electron ~/browser-laptop/

gives me a "command not found." From

/browser-laptop/electron-prebuilt/dist

./electron ~/browser-laptop/ gives me this error:

Error opening app
The app provided is not a valid Electron app, please read the docs on how to write one:
https://github.com/atom/electron/tree/v0.36.2/docs

Error: Cannot find module 'sqlite3'

which I've seen referenced in other tickets. Will continue digging.

[Adejair]

Try install sqlite3 manual(in browser-laptop path) npm install sqlite3 --unsafe-perm

and try command ./electron ~/browser-laptop

[smcnally]

Thanks, @Adejair. Installed sqlite3 in

~/browser-laptop/

and

~/browser-laptop/electron-prebuilt/dist

and getting new errors re abp-filter-parser-cpp. I'll review other tickets for that.

[luixxiul]

This should work.

rm -rf node_modules/
rm -rf ~/.electron
npm i

If not let me know to reopen the issue.

[renhuihhh]

https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron-prebuilt this maybe solve the problem "electron: not found"