Error: Failed to find Electron vv1.3.4

Hello,

I’m using electron-packager to build my electron app. I used The CLI to build the application until now, without issues. Now I wanted to switch to the Programming API to make the build process easier to automate, however I’m having trouble with the version argument: If I supply “v1.3.4” as version property (which I think is the correct formatting), It begings building, but the throws:

Packaging app for platform win32 x64 using electron v1.3.4

Error: Failed to find Electron vv1.3.4 for win32-x64 at https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/vv1.3.4/electron-vv1.3.4-win32-x64.zip
    at Request.<anonymous> (C:\xampp\htdocs\bae\node_modules\nugget\index.js:170:61)
    at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
    at Request.emit (events.js:188:7)
    at Request.onRequestResponse (C:\xampp\htdocs\bae\node_modules\request\request.js:954:10)
    at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
    at ClientRequest.emit (events.js:188:7)
    at HTTPParser.parserOnIncomingClient [as onIncoming] (_http_client.js:472:21)
    at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (_http_common.js:105:23)
    at TLSSocket.socketOnData (_http_client.js:361:20)
    at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
    at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:188:7)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:177:18)
    at TLSSocket.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:135:10)
    at TLSWrap.onread (net.js:542:20)

I saw that the version was malformed to vv1.3.4, which of course is not the right value. Then I assumed that I would need to omit the “v” for the property, which resulted in this error:

 Fatal error: Unable to parse version string

Now I assume that the formatting “v1.x.x” was correct, however still failed. Can someone help me with that?

The content of the js file:

"use strict";

const packager = require("electron-packager");
const packageJson = require("./package.json");


const options = {
    "name": packageJson.name,
    "app-version": packageJson.version,
    "build-version": packageJson.version,
    "version": "v1.3.4",
    "dir": "./app",
    "out": "./releases/",
    "arch": packageJson.build.arch,
    "platform": packageJson.build.platforms,
    "asar": false,
};

console.log(options);

packager(options, function(err, appPaths) {
    if (err) {
        throw err;
    } else {
        console.log(`Built ${packageJson.name}`);
    }
});

I enabled the DEBUG envoriment var for electron-packager and electron-download, the output stays the same

I’m using

• Node 6.4
• npm 3.10.3
• electron-prebuilt 1.3.4
• electron-packager 7.6.0

On Windows 10 64bit

[malept]

Per the API docs about the version option, you need to omit the v.

[FelixRilling]

Oh! That was the problem, I had “v1.7.2” as version key, I didnt know that the electron builder takes this version too! after switching to “1.7.2” It worked. Thanks!