<p dir="auto">This looks like a regression in Electron 4. In Electron 3 the electron file is executable, in 4 it is not.</p>
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<p dir="auto">Compiled binaries on Linux do no compile properly and show up as shared files, I have been told by the team at electron-packager that this is an electron bug and not a electron-packager bug as seen here as well as an explanation of the bug here:</p>
<p dir="auto"><a class="issue-link js-issue-link" data-error-text="Failed to load title" data-id="373918112" data-permission-text="Title is private" data-url="https://github.com/electron/electron-packager/issues/901" data-hovercard-type="issue" data-hovercard-url="/electron/electron-packager/issues/901/hovercard?comment_id=433101967&amp;comment_type=issue_comment" href="https://github.com/electron/electron-packager/issues/901#issuecomment-433101967">electron/electron-packager#901 (comment)</a></p>