Comment 10 for bug 1517491

This is also reported in :
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/npm/+bug/1809828

I have this issue on the up to date Ubuntu 18.04 LTS today (used this workaround :
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1088662/npm-depends-node-gyp-0-10-9-but-it-is-not-going-to-be-installed).

Seems like a dependency issue of the npm package to me, which should be fixed.