Npm Install failing on Homestead

[DevDwarf]

Versions

• Vagrant: 2.1.1
• Provider: Virtualbox 5.2.12r122591
• Homestead: 7.4.2

Expected behavior

Actually Install packages

Actual behavior

npm WARN deprecated gulp-util@3.0.8: gulp-util is deprecated - replace it, following the guidelines at https://medium.com/gulpjs/gulp-util-ca3b1f9f9ac5
npm ERR! write after end

Then nothing.

Steps to reproduce

1. Do clean install of Homestead
2. Startup Vagrant box
3. create new laravel instillation
4. run npm install

References

npm/npm#19989
isaacs/node-tar#180

Current Solution

run npm i -g npm@5.6.0 which downgrades your npm to version 5.6.0 and seems to work then

[svpernova09]

Nothing we can do at the Homestead level about NPM bugs (except wait for them to be fixed upstream).

[pajaro5]

Try with this:
$ composer update
$ sudo npm install --global cross-env