Error: Cannot find module /node_modules/gatsby-cli/scripts/postinstall.js

As others have described, I am getting an error when attempting to install the gatsby-cli. Is there a solution to this? Environment is Ubuntu 16.04, Nodejs is 12.16.1.

The error:

Error: Cannot find module '/root/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.1/lib/node_modules/gatsby-cli/node_modules/gatsby-telemetry/src/postinstall.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:982:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:864:27)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:74:12)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:18:47 {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: []
}

> gatsby-cli@2.11.3 postinstall /root/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.1/lib/node_modules/gatsby-cli
> node scripts/postinstall.js

internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:985
  throw err;
  ^

Error: Cannot find module '/root/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.1/lib/node_modules/gatsby-cli/scripts/postinstall.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:982:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:864:27)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:74:12)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:18:47 {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: []
}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! gatsby-cli@2.11.3 postinstall: `node scripts/postinstall.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the gatsby-cli@2.11.3 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-03-30T01_47_08_399Z-debug.log
root@ubuntu-s-1vcpu-1gb-sfo2-01:~/gatsby# npm install -g gatsby-cli@2.7.2

Steps to reproduce

All I did was follow the tutorial here and ran this (but as root, not user) npm install -g gatsby-cli

Expected result

Need to install gatsby-cli properly.

Actual result

Errors

Environment

System: OS: Linux 4.4 Ubuntu 16.04.6 LTS (Xenial Xerus) CPU: (1) x64 Intel® Xeon® Gold 6140 CPU @ 2.30GHz Shell: 4.3.48 - /bin/bash Binaries: Node: 12.16.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.1/bin/node npm: 6.13.4 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.16.1/bin/npm Languages: Python: 2.7.12 - /usr/bin/python Browsers: Firefox: 74.0 npmGlobalPackages: gatsby-cli: 2.7.2

[LekoArts]

Hi!

Since we didn’t receive an answer for 7 business days or more about the ask of a reproduction I’m going to close this now, as we can’t do much to help without a reproduction. If you are able to create a minimal reproduction for this then please do answer here or reopen the issue. Thanks!

[jamo]

Perfect, thanks for helping out!

And here is PR https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby/pull/28067 with the changes