npm install puppeteer fails on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Steps to reproduce

Tell us about your environment:

• Puppeteer version: v5.3.0
• Platform / OS version: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
• URLs (if applicable):
• Node.js version: v8.10.0

What steps will reproduce the problem?

I try to install puppeteer on my Ubuntu 18.04 LTS instance using npm install puppeteer

Please include code that reproduces the issue.

1. npm install puppeteer

What is the expected result?

Install is successful

What happens instead?

unhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: /home/kekearif/meh/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/cjs/puppeteer/install.js:138
                    catch {
                          ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
    at createScript (vm.js:80:10)
    at Object.runInThisContext (vm.js:139:10)
    at Module._compile (module.js:616:28)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:565:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
    at Module.require (module.js:596:17)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at download (/home/kekearif/meh/node_modules/puppeteer/install.js:35:7)
(node:11036) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 1)
(node:11036) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.
meh@1.0.0 /home/kekearif/meh
└── puppeteer@5.3.0  extraneous

npm WARN ws@7.3.1 requires a peer of bufferutil@^4.0.1 but none was installed.
npm WARN ws@7.3.1 requires a peer of utf-8-validate@^5.0.2 but none was installed.
npm WARN meh@1.0.0 No description
npm WARN meh@1.0.0 No repository field.

Having issues installing puppeteer on Ubuntu as noted above, some advice on how to fix this would be much appreciated! Thanks

[AviVahl]

The version of Node.js (8) is outdated. Current puppeteer versions support "node": ">=10.18.1".

[AviVahl]

You are running sudo npm. run: sudo node -v What does it say?