npm install firebase fails

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I'm trying to install firebase ^5.5.0 on my local environment (vagrant/virtualbox with ubuntu 16.0.4 and the newest npm and nodejs)

When I run npm install I get this error:

npm ERR! path /code/node_modules/grpc/node_modules/mkdirp/node_modules/minimist/package.json.789167206 npm ERR! code ENOENT npm ERR! errno -2 npm ERR! syscall open npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/code/node_modules/grpc/node_modules/mkdirp/node_modules/minimist/package.json.789167206' npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file. npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: npm ERR!
/home/vagrant/.npm/_logs/2018-09-19T09_14_46_808Z-debug.log

The logs or verbose don't tell me anything other than this. How can I solve this?

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If you are trying to install this globally to the system, run npm install -g firebase instead. That said, if you are trying to install firebase to a specific folder/project make sure you have a package.json present in the folder you run the command in. – Carlo Field
Hi Carlo, thanks for your answer. It's actually running from a package.json - when I run npm install after adding it to the json file, I get this error. – Maarten Raaijmakers
Have you tried deleting your package-lock.json and your node_modules folder and re-running npm install? – Carlo Field
Yes I have, it's of no result unfortunately. I'm also getting a new (replaced) error now after installing grpc and mkdirp: /code/node_modules/@firebase/firestore/node_modules/grpc/node_modules/mkdirp/node_modules/minimist/package.json.1879144488 Where /code/node_modules/@firebase/firestore/ does not exist on the system, only firestore-types – Maarten Raaijmakers
Could you post the complete error log as specified in the error message? – Carlo Field

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I did what @Carlo I deleted the package-lock.json and ran npm install, after auditing all the package I ran npm install firebase prior to funding and some audit fixes. Maybe after funding or fixing some audits it may have been incompatible with installing firebase.