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Unable to install on darwin (inotify@1.4.2: The platform "darwin" is incompatible with this module.)

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Version: 20.26.1

electron-updater Version: 3.0.3

Target: darwin

I get the following error when trying to install electron-builder on the mac:

yarn add dev electron-builder --latest
yarn add v1.7.0
[1/5] 🔍  Validating package.json...
[2/5] 🔍  Resolving packages...
⠂ dev(node:13730) [DEP0005] DeprecationWarning: Buffer() is deprecated due to security and usability issues. Please use the Buffer.alloc(), Buffer.allocUnsafe(), or Buffer.from() methods instead.
[3/5] 🚚  Fetching packages...
error inotify@1.4.2: The platform "darwin" is incompatible with this module.
error Found incompatible module
info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/add for documentation about this command.

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:8 (4 by maintainers)

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mrfeltoncommented, Jul 27, 2018

I think I have found my issue.

Should be

yarn add --dev electron-builder --latest

Not

yarn add dev electron-builder --latest

doh!

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mrfeltoncommented, Jul 27, 2018

No, the problem is as per my last post.

yarn add dev electron-builder --latest

This is trying to install 2 packages - dev and electron-builder. Where as what I means to do was to install electron-builder as a dev package with yarn add ---dev electron-builder --latest