title: Install electron on ubuntu
body: <p>When I try to install electron on Ubuntu 15.04 using </p>
  
  <p><code>sudo npm install electron-prebuilt -g</code></p>
  
  <p>This is what I get</p>
  
  <pre><code>/usr/local/bin/electron -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/cli.js
  
  > electron-prebuilt@0.28.3 postinstall /usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron-prebuilt
  > node install.js
  
  Downloading electron-v0.28.3-linux-x64.zip
  Error: tunneling socket could not be established, cause=139936635598656:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_clnt.c:795:
  
  
  /usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron-prebuilt/install.js:15
    throw err
          ^
  Error: tunneling socket could not be established, cause=139936635598656:error:140770FC:SSL routines:SSL23_GET_SERVER_HELLO:unknown protocol:s23_clnt.c:795:
  
  npm WARN This failure might be due to the use of legacy binary "node"
  npm WARN For further explanations, please read
  /usr/share/doc/nodejs/README.Debian
  
  npm ERR! electron-prebuilt@0.28.3 postinstall: `node install.js`
  npm ERR! Exit status 8
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! Failed at the electron-prebuilt@0.28.3 postinstall script.
  npm ERR! This is most likely a problem with the electron-prebuilt package,
  npm ERR! not with npm itself.
  npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
  npm ERR!     node install.js
  npm ERR! You can get their info via:
  npm ERR!     npm owner ls electron-prebuilt
  npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
  
  npm ERR! System Linux 3.19.0-18-generic
  npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "electron-prebuilt"
  npm ERR! cwd /usr/bin
  npm ERR! node -v v0.10.25
  npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.21
  npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
  npm ERR! 
  npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
  npm ERR!     /usr/bin/npm-debug.log
  npm ERR! not ok code 0
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried </p>
  
  <p>Creating a system link for node with the command:
  <code>ln -s node nodejs</code> in the <code>/usr/bin/</code> folder</p>
  
  <p>and </p>
  
  <p>installing node-legacy package: <code>sudo apt-get install node-legacy</code>
  as suggested <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7559648/is-there-a-way-to-make-npm-install-the-command-to-work-behind-proxy">here</a>
  with no luck.</p>
  
  <p>Couldn't find anything more on other forums.So please help.
  Thanks in advance.</p>