Error when installing Firebase ionic

> grpc@1.17.0 install /home/sahith/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library

node-pre-gyp WARN Using request for node-pre-gyp https download
node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not installable for grpc@1.17.0 and node@8.10.0 (node-v57 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
node-pre-gyp WARN Hit error EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/sahith/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/src/node'
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/sahith/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/build'
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.15.0-43-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "--fallback-to-build" "--library=static_library" "--module=/home/sahith/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v57-linux-x64-glibc/grpc_node.node" "--module_name=grpc_node" "--module_path=/home/sahith/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v57-linux-x64-glibc" "--napi_version=1" "--node_abi_napi=napi" "--napi_build_version=0" "--node_napi_label=node-v57"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/sahith/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc
gyp ERR! node -v v8.10.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok
node-pre-gyp ERR! build error
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --library=static_library --module=/home/sahith/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v57-linux-x64-glibc/grpc_node.node --module_name=grpc_node --module_path=/home/sahith/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v57-linux-x64-glibc --napi_version=1 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=0 --node_napi_label=node-v57' (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/sahith/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:925:16)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:209:5)
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 4.15.0-43-generic
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/home/sahith/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build" "--library=static_library"
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /home/sahith/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v8.10.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.12.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok
Failed to execute '/usr/bin/node /usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --library=static_library --module=/home/sahith/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v57-linux-x64-glibc/grpc_node.node --module_name=grpc_node --module_path=/home/sahith/.npm-global/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v57-linux-x64-glibc --napi_version=1 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=0 --node_napi_label=node-v57' (1)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! grpc@1.17.0 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the grpc@1.17.0 install 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!     /home/sahith/.npm/_logs/2019-01-20T16_13_00_058Z-debug.log