Starting app fails at initializing gulp

[ZviBaratz]

Hi there,

I am using Linux Mint 18.2 with node v9.8.0 and npm v5.6.0.
I'm trying to run npm install and I get the following message:

Mongotron@1.0.0-alpha.5 postinstall /home/flavus/PycharmProjects/mongotron
bower install && gulp dev-sym-links

module.js:545
throw err;
^

Error: Cannot find module 'internal/util/types'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:543:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:470:25)
at Module.require (module.js:593:17)
at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
at evalmachine.:31:26
at Object. (/home/flavus/PycharmProjects/mongotron/node_modules/bower/node_modules/graceful-fs/fs.js:11:1)
at Module._compile (module.js:649:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:660:10)
at Module.load (module.js:561:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:501:12)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! Mongotron@1.0.0-alpha.5 postinstall: bower install && gulp dev-sym-links
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the Mongotron@1.0.0-alpha.5 postinstall 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/flavus/.npm/_logs/2018-03-08T10_13_15_667Z-debug.log

Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Thank you!
Zvi