在ubuntu中的npm安装错误

Question

我正在尝试使用命令curl -L https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh安装npm，但我收到以下错误：

module.js:340
    throw err;
          ^
Error: Cannot find module '/tmp/npm.8156/package/bin/read-package-json.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:935:3

/tmp/npm.8156/package/lib/utils/unsupported.js:28
        console.error(`a bug known to break npm. Please update to at least ${r
                      ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
    at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at /tmp/npm.8156/package/bin/npm-cli.js:19:21
    at Object.<anonymous> (/tmp/npm.8156/package/bin/npm-cli.js:92:3)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)

/tmp/npm.8156/package/lib/utils/unsupported.js:28
        console.error(`a bug known to break npm. Please update to at least ${r
                      ^
SyntaxError: Unexpected token ILLEGAL
    at Module._compile (module.js:439:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
    at require (module.js:380:17)
    at /tmp/npm.8156/package/bin/npm-cli.js:19:21
    at Object.<anonymous> (/tmp/npm.8156/package/bin/npm-cli.js:92:3)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
It failed

导致此错误的原因是什么？可以做些什么来解决这个问题？