flati@flati-VirtualBox ~/Desktop/Projects/flati/risi-signup $ sudo npm i -g firebase

> grpc@1.24.2 install /usr/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc
> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library

node-pre-gyp WARN Using needle for node-pre-gyp https download
node-pre-gyp WARN Pre-built binaries not installable for grpc@1.24.2 and node@8.11.3 (node-v57 ABI, glibc) (falling back to source compile with node-gyp)
node-pre-gyp WARN Hit error EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/src/node'
gyp WARN EACCES user "nobody" does not have permission to access the dev dir "/home/flati/.cache/node-gyp/8.11.3"
gyp WARN EACCES attempting to reinstall using temporary dev dir "/usr/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/.node-gyp"
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp WARN install got an error, rolling back install
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/usr/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/.node-gyp'
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.4.0-112-generic
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "configure" "--fallback-to-build" "--library=static_library" "--module=/usr/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=/usr/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v57-linux-x64-glibc" "--napi_version=3" "--node_abi_napi=napi" "--napi_build_version=0" "--node_napi_label=node-v57"
gyp ERR! cwd /usr/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc
gyp ERR! node -v v8.11.3
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.0.3
gyp ERR! not ok
node-pre-gyp ERR! build error
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --library=static_library --module=/usr/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=/usr/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v57-linux-x64-glibc --napi_version=3 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=0 --node_napi_label=node-v57' (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/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 4.4.0-112-generic
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/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 /usr/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v8.11.3
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.14.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok
Failed to execute '/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js configure --fallback-to-build --library=static_library --module=/usr/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=/usr/lib/node_modules/firebase/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/node-v57-linux-x64-glibc --napi_version=3 --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@1.24.2 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --library=static_library`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the grpc@1.24.2 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/flati/.npm/_logs/2019-11-20T13_56_47_213Z-debug.log