title: Error on insatling npm packages in Ubuntu
body: <p>I am having a project, previously it was working fine suddenly it started showing this error :-
  This is a react project created using create-react-app.
  Same Error for <code>npm install</code> and <code>npm -f install</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>sudipt@sudo:~/Desktop/project/console-frontend$ npm -f install
  npm WARN using --force I sure hope you know what you are doing.
  npm WARN deprecated popper.js@1.16.1: You can find the new Popper v2 at @popperjs/core, this package is dedicated to the legacy v1
  npm WARN deprecated request@2.88.2: request has been deprecated, see https://github.com/request/request/issues/3142
  npm WARN deprecated fsevents@2.0.6: Please update: there are crash fixes
  npm WARN deprecated urix@0.1.0: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated
  npm WARN deprecated resolve-url@0.2.1: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated
  npm ERR! Linux 5.3.0-46-generic
  npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "-f" "install"
  npm ERR! node v8.10.0
  npm ERR! npm  v3.5.2
  npm ERR! code EMISSINGARG
  
  npm ERR! typeerror Error: Missing required argument #1
  npm ERR! typeerror     at andLogAndFinish (/usr/share/npm/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js:31:3)
  npm ERR! typeerror     at fetchPackageMetadata (/usr/share/npm/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js:51:22)
  npm ERR! typeerror     at resolveWithNewModule (/usr/share/npm/lib/install/deps.js:456:12)
  npm ERR! typeerror     at /usr/share/npm/lib/install/deps.js:457:7
  npm ERR! typeerror     at /usr/share/npm/node_modules/iferr/index.js:13:50
  npm ERR! typeerror     at /usr/share/npm/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js:37:12
  npm ERR! typeerror     at addRequestedAndFinish (/usr/share/npm/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js:82:5)
  npm ERR! typeerror     at returnAndAddMetadata (/usr/share/npm/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js:117:7)
  npm ERR! typeerror     at pickVersionFromRegistryDocument (/usr/share/npm/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js:134:20)
  npm ERR! typeerror     at /usr/share/npm/node_modules/iferr/index.js:13:50
  npm ERR! typeerror This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
  npm ERR! typeerror     &lt;http://github.com/npm/npm/issues&gt;
  
  npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
  npm ERR!     /home/sudipt/Desktop/hydra-python-agent-gui/console-frontend/npm-debug.log
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks for helping</p>