Cannot find module

OS: Ubuntu 16.04.5 LTS, node v11.10.1

Installing Solid server with

sudo npm install -g solid-server

results following errors:

npm WARN deprecated nodemailer@3.1.8: All versions below 4.0.1 of Nodemailer are deprecated. See https://nodemailer.com/status/
npm WARN deprecated text-encoding@0.6.4: no longer maintained
npm WARN deprecated node-uuid@1.4.8: Use uuid module instead
npm WARN deprecated coffee-script@1.12.7: CoffeeScript on NPM has moved to "coffeescript" (no hyphen)
/usr/bin/solid -> /usr/lib/node_modules/solid-server/bin/solid

spawn-sync@1.0.15 postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/solid-server/node_modules/spawn-sync
node postinstall

internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:615
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module '/usr/lib/node_modules/solid-server/node_modules/spawn-sync/postinstall'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:613:15)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:539:25)
at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:801:12)
at internal/main/run_main_module.js:21:11
npm WARN babel-preset-metalab@1.0.0 requires a peer of babel-core@^6.24.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN babel-literal-to-ast@1.0.0 requires a peer of babel-core@>=6.0.20 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! spawn-sync@1.0.15 postinstall: node postinstall
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the spawn-sync@1.0.15 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!

Start by reproducing the reported sudo npm install -g solid-server failure on the stated Ubuntu and Node versions, then inspect the spawn-sync@1.0.15 postinstall step and its missing postinstall entry point. Done means the global installation completes without the Cannot find module or postinstall lifecycle errors.