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autoUpdater error: TypeError: Cannot read property 'request' of undefined

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Version: 13.9.0

Target: Mac

I am trying to use autoUpdater to update my app but it gives me this error all the time. autoUpdater error: TypeError: Cannot read property ‘request’ of undefined The promise that gets returned when I call autoUpdater.checkForUpdates() gets rejected with reason as undefined. I am using electron-updater version 1.8.2

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Created 7 years ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

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navdeepsinghkhalsacommented, Apr 3, 2017

My fault. I had an older electronVersion specified in package.json for the compatibility of an unrelated module.

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ovsokolovcommented, May 9, 2017

Can you explain where this compatibility version specified? It works on Mac for me but i got same error in Win.

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