How to disable the binary download and use Cypress for just the Typescript types?

[codefactor]

I want to create a library with a lot of Typescript utilities that make uses of the cy and Cypress globals. Many different teams will then use this library a dependency to their projects, and they can each have this shared library of Cucumber Given/Then/When statements without copying code to each module. If they wanted to, their project would mostly be just *.feature files.

The library will never directly run tests, I am basically only using the cypress dependency here for the typescript support. On top of that, the build machine which is trying the install is giving the following error:

22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] The Cypress App could not be downloaded.
22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] 
22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] Does your workplace require a proxy to be used to access the Internet? If so, you must configure the HTTP_PROXY environment variable before downloading Cypress. Read more: https://on.cypress.io/proxy-configuration
22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] 
22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] Otherwise, please check network connectivity and try again:
22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] 
22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] ----------
22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] 
22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] URL: https://download.cypress.io/desktop/8.3.1?platform=linux&arch=x64
22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] Error: connect ECONNREFUSED *******
22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] 
22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] ----------
22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] 
22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] Platform: linux (SUSE Linux - 12)
22:35:38 INFO - [FAILED] Cypress Version: 8.3.1

This is a blocker for me - how can I skip the download for this project entirely, since it is not running tests but merely using the types? This would unblock the build machine, and also make the build faster.

I tried the following environment variable:

CYPRESS_SKIP_BINARY_INSTALL=1

I'm not sure if it is working. The error above was copied after I tried to set this. But there is a chance that I didn't set the environment variable correctly (since this is a remote build machine after all).

Is there a way to use just the typescript files and avoid any sort of large binary files that I won't actually be using as part of this library?