electron: Electron fails to install on Windows 10 because of "self signed certificate in certificate chain"

npm install -D electron@2.0.0

electron@2.0.0 postinstall C:\Git\System_Console\Sources\Apps\mp4player\node_modules\electron node install.js

Downloading electron-v2.0.0-win32-x64.zip Error: self signed certificate in certificate chain C:\Git\System_Console\Sources\Apps\mp4player\node_modules\electron\install.js:47 throw err ^

Error: self signed certificate in certificate chain at TLSSocket.<anonymous> (_tls_wrap.js:1116:38) at emitNone (events.js:106:13) at TLSSocket.emit (events.js:208:7) at TLSSocket._finishInit (_tls_wrap.js:643:8) at TLSWrap.ssl.onhandshakedone (_tls_wrap.js:473:38) npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! electron@2.0.0 postinstall: node install.js npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the electron@2.0.0 postinstall script. Also happening with “npm install electron@latest”

Expected Behavior Electron to install via npm

Actual behavior It fails to install as per noted above.

To Reproduce Steps provided above.

I’ve always worked on Ubuntu. Need to compile a windows version of the Electron app. This is Windows 10 clean machine. Installed Node (v8.12.0), NPM (6.4.1) and Git (for Windows). Checked out my source. Went to project folder and npm install and then gets error when installing electron.

Tried to re-install electron (as noted above) and same issue.

From package.json: “dependencies”: { “axios”: “^0.18.0”, “chokidar”: “^2.0.4”, “imports-loader”: “^0.8.0”, “lodash”: “^4.17.11”, “mime-types”: “^2.1.21”, “moment”: “^2.22.2”, “plyr”: “^3.4.5”, “pretty-bytes”: “^5.1.0”, “snapsvg”: “^0.5.1”, “vue-i18n”: “^7.3.3”, “vue-plyr”: “^4.0.0” }, “devDependencies”: { “babel-eslint”: “^8.2.1”, “devtron”: “^1.4.0”, “electron”: “^2.0.0”, “electron-builder”: “^20.29.0”, “electron-debug”: “^1.5.0”, “electron-devtools-installer”: “^2.2.4”, “electron-packager”: “^12.2.0”, “electron-toolkit”: “^1.0.24”, “eslint”: “^4.18.2”, “eslint-config-standard”: “^11.0.0”, “eslint-friendly-formatter”: “^4.0.1”, “eslint-loader”: “^2.0.0”, “eslint-plugin-import”: “^2.9.0”, “eslint-plugin-node”: “^6.0.1”, “eslint-plugin-promise”: “^3.7.0”, “eslint-plugin-standard”: “^3.0.1”, “eslint-plugin-vue”: “^4.3.0”, “quasar-cli”: “^0.17.20”, “strip-ansi”: “=3.0.1” },