npm install error about zap HOT 3 CLOSED

Yes.... There was a serious problem with the package versions since electron got updated to 9.4.
I tracked this down and backtracked the problem to sqlite3 upgrade to 5.0.0 which happened a while back, and with latest electron the situation completely exploded.

I have backed out of several upgrades, so now we are back to electron 8.2 and sqlite3 4.2.
Using node 14.15.5 is ok.

Note that on Linux you have to run src-script/install-packages-[ubuntu/fedora].

I had a bit of problem to recreate my dev environment after the downgrade, so I suggest:
1.) rm -rf node_modules/
2.) npm ci
3.) check the doc/faq.md, it lists few things you need to run:
- src-script/npm-update-binary
- possibly some of those rebuild commands that faq.md lists.

This is one time thing, so once you get to the point of being able to run npm run zap normally (also try npm run gen and npm run test), you should be ok for a while.

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Same error on ubuntu 20.04 and node v14.15.5

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node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not found for [email protected] and [email protected] (electron-v9.4 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp

So I deleted this line from package.json

"postinstall": "electron-builder install-app-deps && husky install",

after that I could install and run successfully, this might not be the best fix though.

I'll leave this ticket open for info if you think that it should to be fixed

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Excellent, thanks a lot for the details

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