Can't use an Electron built app on Rasbian

Question

I'm working on an Electron project, and I wanted to run it on my raspberry pi 3 B+, which is on Raspbian (installed with NOOBS). I first tried to build my electron app with the following command, and then import it on my rasp through ssh.

npm run electron:linux

The app runs on my computer just fine, but it doesn't launch on my raspberry. I then tried to just git clone my whole project directly on it, but again, I didn't succeed to make it work. Does anyone know why it doesn't work on Raspbian ?

Perhaps this will help https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54249925/how-to-run-packaged-electron-app-on-linux — smitty_werbenjagermanjensen, Feb 26 '20 at 17:12
I checked your link but unfortunatly it didn't help much, sorry — Bamboozled, Mar 03 '20 at 15:16

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 03 '20 at 15:14

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Okay, I found the issue by myself.

On my computer, I was building my app with the following command:

npm run build:prod && electron-builder build --linux (aka npm run electron:linux)

But this won't work on raspbian as it works differently. To build correctly my electron app for a raspberry pi, I needed to use this following command instead, with the option --armv7:

npm run build:prod && electron-builder build --linux --armv7

I hope this answer will help some of you in the future !

answered Mar 03 '20 at 15:14

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Hey, didn't work for me the armv7 but thanks a lot because: for me works `npm run build:prod && electron-builder build --linux --armv7l` – noam aghai Mar 29 '20 at 13:44
electron-build build -l --armv7l – Juliver Galleto Jul 28 '21 at 09:44

Can't use an Electron built app on Rasbian

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