`npm install` ends with "Killed"

I haved same problem, my solution:

  sudo /bin/dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/swap.1 bs=1M count=1024
  sudo /sbin/mkswap /var/swap.1
  sudo /sbin/swapon /var/swap.1

this commands changed configuration for swap

Trying running npm install cross-spawn and then npm install again to see if that works. It looks like whats happening is when you run npm install npm looks inside your package.json provided by telesope and is running a deprecated package

I am running into a similar issue installing npm packages and getting the message "Killed" and a non-zero exit status. For my scenario, it was because my system was running out of memory and I had no swap configured. Configuring swap fixed my problem.

To solve this issue on 14.04 and 16.04:

sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
sudo swapon --show
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10
echo 'vm.swappiness=10' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50
echo 'vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf

This will create a swap file of 1GB