Comment # 2 on bug 1094617 from Adam Majer

Thank you for the bug report. Unfortunately, or fortunately, the version of npm
included as part of nodejs10 distribution is the version packaged by upstream
Node.js distribution.

If you would like newer version of npm installed, install it with `npm install
-g npm`.

NOTE: set your prefix path with `npm config` (eg. npm config prefix
${HOME}/.npm) and point your PATH there so you can install global modules
without actually running npm as root.