npm install 0x.js fails on clean node install

[tomhschmidt]

Just did a node install from their pkg download on a brand new machine. Running npm install fails, but
a) yarn works fine and
b) npm installing other packages works fine

node -v
v9.3.0

npm -v
5.6.0

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! Command failed: /usr/bin/git clone -q https://github.com/frozeman/bignumber.js-nolookahead.git /Users/tomhschmidt/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-58bc61de
npm ERR! /Users/tomhschmidt/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-58bc61de/.git: Permission denied
npm ERR! 

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/tomhschmidt/.npm/_logs/2018-01-09T18_39_14_375Z-debug.log
macbook-pro:pipeline tomhschmidt$ sudo npm install --save 0x.js
Password:
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! Command failed: /usr/bin/git clone -q https://github.com/frozeman/bignumber.js-nolookahead.git /Users/tomhschmidt/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-42a0a849
npm ERR! /Users/tomhschmidt/.npm/_cacache/tmp/git-clone-42a0a849/.git: Permission denied
npm ERR! 

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/tomhschmidt/.npm/_logs/2018-01-09T19_30_18_792Z-debug.log

[citizens]

@tomhschmidt This is likely due to a web3.js dependency that is hosted on github rather than npm. Do you have git installed on you new machine? This issue suggests that may be the problem.

Otherwise there is an open discussion in the web3.js repo. Apparently this dependency will go away in web3.js 1.0, but I'm unsure of a timeline.

[tomhschmidt]

@citizens Yup, have git installed

git --version
git version 2.14.3 (Apple Git-98)

I just tried installing web3 with npm and got the same error, so you're right. Kind of a bummer :/ -- weird that it works with yarn but not with npm. Is there a yarn pkg for this bignumber git repo?

[fabioberger]

This is annoying. We have been waiting to upgrade to Web3 1.0 until it gets out of Beta but we might have to do so sooner :/