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npm install -g @angular/cli failing with syntax error – CentOS

I have a jenkins job that runs on a centos 7 container.
Once the container is up the jenkins job runs a script that
executes

 npm install -g @angular/cli

This has worked for about an year but today it started failing:

 /usr/bin/ng -> /usr/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/ng
 > @angular/[email protected] postinstall /usr/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli
 > node ./bin/postinstall/script.js
 /usr/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/postinstall/analytics-prompt.js:8
 (async () => {
 ^
 SyntaxError: Unexpected token (
 at createScript (vm.js:56:10)
 at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:97:10)
 at Module._compile (module.js:549:28)
 at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:586:10)
 at Module.load (module.js:494:32)
 at tryModuleLoad (module.js:453:12)
 at Function.Module._load (module.js:445:3)
 at Module.require (module.js:504:17)
 at require (internal/module.js:20:19)
 at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/node_modules/@angular/cli/bin/postinstall/script.js:5:1)
 npm ERR! Linux 3.10.0-957.1.3.el7.x86_64
 npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "@angular/cli"
 npm ERR! node v6.16.0
 npm ERR! npm  v3.10.10
 npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
 npm ERR! @angular/[email protected] postinstall: `node ./bin/postinstall/script.js`
 npm ERR! Exit status 1
 npm ERR!
 npm ERR! Failed at the @angular/[email protected] postinstall script 'node ./bin/postinstall/script.js'.
 npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
 npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the @angular/cli package,
 npm ERR! not with npm itself.
 npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
 npm ERR!     node ./bin/postinstall/script.js
 npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
 npm ERR!     npm bugs @angular/cli
 npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
 npm ERR!     npm owner ls @angular/cli
 npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
 npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
 npm ERR!     /app/capman-fe/npm-debug.log

My packages.json is this:

{
  "name": "pman-fe",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "scripts": {
    "ng": "ng",
    "start": "ng serve",
    "build": "ng build",
    "test": "ng test",
    "lint": "ng lint",
    "e2e": "ng e2e"
  },
  "private": true,
  "dependencies": {
... omitted for brevity ...
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "@angular-devkit/build-angular": "^0.6.8",
    "@angular/cli": "^6.0.8",
    "@angular/compiler-cli": "^6.0.3",
    "@angular/language-service": "^6.0.3",
    "@types/d3": "^5.7.1",
    "@types/jasmine": "~2.8.6",
    "@types/jasminewd2": "~2.0.3",
    "@types/node": "~8.9.4",
    "codelyzer": "~4.2.1",
    "jasmine-core": "~2.99.1",
    "jasmine-spec-reporter": "~4.2.1",
    "karma": "~1.7.1",
    "karma-chrome-launcher": "~2.2.0",
    "karma-coverage-istanbul-reporter": "~2.0.0",
    "karma-jasmine": "~1.1.1",
    "karma-jasmine-html-reporter": "^0.2.2",
    "protractor": "^5.4.1",
    "ts-node": "~5.0.1",
    "tslint": "~5.9.1",
    "typescript": "~2.7.2"
  }
}
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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER
    0

    I was able to solve this error. The problem was that when I installed npm I simply executed: yum -y install npm. I guess the yum repo that the container I have to use doesn't have an up to date copy of the npm rpm. So I changed how I install npm. Now I do this:

    yum install -y gcc-c++ make
curl -sL https://rpm.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | bash -
yum -y install nodejs
node -v
npm -v
npm install -g @angular/cli

    as per https://tecadmin.net/install-latest-nodejs-and-npm-on-centos/


  2. 0

    replace

    npm install -g @angular/cli

    on 

    npm install -g @angular/cli@~8.0.0

    current 8.0.4 version @angular/cli bug with dependency

    use ~8.0.0 or less (Ideal for version to match with package.json)

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  3. 0

    I just encountered the same error on Windows: turns out I had a super old version (v.6.11.0) of Node, so I would just try updating the local version of Node on your centos machine (or whatever environment you are on). Note this will also update your version of npm (most likely).

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