Error installing electron-forge in Linux with yarn: platform incompatible with module

I was just trying to install electron-forge with yarn and it won’t install, saying that “linux” platform is incompatible with the module macos-alias. npm installs correctly (doesn’t even throws a warning about macos-alias).

  yarn global add electron-forge --prefix ~/.npm-global

Throws (without the #, of course, just for highlight the error part):

# yarn global v0.20.3
# [1/4] Resolving packages...
# warning electron-forge > zip-folder > archiver > glob > minimatch@0.3.0:
# Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
# warning electron-forge > electron-windows-store > flatten-packages >wrench@1.5.9:
# wrench.js is deprecated! You should check out
# fs-extra (https://github.com/jprichardson/node-fs-extra) for any operations
# you were using wrench for. Thanks for all the usage over the years.
# warning electron-forge > electron-packager > asar > mksnapshot > request > node-uuid@1.4.7:
# use uuid module instead
# warning electron-forge > nugget > progress-stream > through2 > xtend >object-keys@0.4.0:

# [2/4] Fetching packages...
# warning appdmg@0.4.5: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module.
# info "appdmg@0.4.5" is an optional dependency and failed compatibility check. # Excluding it from installation.
error macos-alias@0.2.11: The platform "linux" is incompatible with this module.
error Found incompatible module
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/global for documentation about this command.

Is this a problem of electron-forge with yarn (like some configuration) or a yarn specific one?

[malept]

@bendemboski thanks for pushing forward on this. As someone who runs Linux as their primary dev environment, it’s very much appreciated.

[malept]

@kevingelion I think @paulcbetts commented somewhere (don’t remember where, sorry) that the problem you mention is a big blocker in version controlling yarn.lock for Electron apps.