Unable to install npm alsa

[nkolban]

When I try and install the "alsa" package on Raspbian with npm 2.15.8 installed, we get a slew of errors. I have attached those errors in a text file attached to this issue report.
issue.txt

[MikeSperone]

I also have this issue, with identical errors. The only differnce being my linux kernel version:
mine: 3.13.0-88-generic
theirs: 4.4.11-v7+

I'm on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Some online research/solutions I tried, but did not work:
I have checked that alsa was installed fully by doing: "sudo apt-get install libasound2-dev" again
I found a solution where you need to delete "~/.node-gyp" and reboot - which did not work for me either
I also installed both build-essential and libkrb5-dev to no avail.

[belm0]

There is no simple fix. Project must be rewritten to modern v8 API, or possibly use backwards compatibility offered by https://github.com/nodejs/nan ?