npm ERR! asyncWrite is not a function

Question

npm install -g firebase-tools npm ERR! asyncWrite is not a function npm ERR! pna.nextTick is not a function

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

Answer 1

Usually, the best way for fix it is:

rm -R /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm and reinstall Node.js.

My recommendation is install every time Node.js from source code (yes, running make && make install). If you using Debian/Ubuntu, remember first install build-essential

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential
$ wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v10.6.0/node-v10.6.0.tar.gz
$ tar -zxvf node-v10.6.0.tar.gz
$ cd node-v10.6.0
$ make
$ sudo make install

Regards.