Generated checksum for "electron-v1.4.12-darwin-x64.zip" did not match expected checksum

[StefMa]

• Electron version: 1.4.12
• Operating system: macOS High Sierra

Expected behavior

electron can be downloaded/installed an run

Actual behavior

I got just the message:

Error: Generated checksum for "electron-v1.4.12-darwin-x64.zip" did not match expected checksum.
    at ChecksumMismatchError.ErrorWithFilename (/Users/stefan/Desktop/Geist/node_modules/sumchecker/build.js:41:124)
    at new ChecksumMismatchError (/Users/stefan/Desktop/Geist/node_modules/sumchecker/build.js:56:133)
    at Hash.<anonymous> (/Users/stefan/Desktop/Geist/node_modules/sumchecker/build.js:203:22)
    at Hash.emit (events.js:159:13)
    at emitReadable_ (_stream_readable.js:516:10)
    at emitReadable (_stream_readable.js:510:7)
    at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:276:7)

How to reproduce

I want to build this project here: https://github.com/stefma/geist
(In a nutshell: Just checkout and run yarn install)
But if I run yarn install I got the message from above.
I've already seen electron-userland/electron-prebuilt#264 & electron-userland/electron-prebuilt#275.
I've also understood "why it happend".
But I'm unable to fix that :D

I've tried to update electon to 1.7.10 and electron-builder to 19.50.0 but without success.
I've even tried to different versions of electron and the builder... Even without success :(

How can I build that project without an issue? 🤔
Additional: Why will such a change break older versions? I don't get it.

[sofianguy]

@StefMa Thanks for reaching out!

Because we treat our issues list as the team's backlog, we close issues that are questions since they don't represent a task needing to be completed. For most questions about Electron there are a lot of options.
Check out the Electron community. There are also a bunch of helpful people in this community forum that should be willing to point you in the right direction.

[fspinnenhirn]

@StefMa What node version are you using?
As mentioned in electron-userland/electron-prebuilt#264, downgrading to a v6 of node before installing avoids the checksum error.

[eveningkid]

@StefMa Ran into the exact same issue. Downgrading to Node v6 worked for me!

[arausly]

In my case, I basically just ran the entire command again a couple times after, with the --verbose command along npm install electron --save-dev --verbose not saying the verbose command had anything to do about it.