`npm install` ends with "Killed"

Question

I'm trying to run Telescope (a meteor app) on an Ubuntu 16.04 server. I follow the instructions in the readme:

curl https://install.meteor.com/ | sh git clone [email protected]:TelescopeJS/Telescope.git npm install 

The first two commands run without an error, but the last command end in Killed:

$ npm install npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: cross-spawn no longer requires a build toolchain, use it instead! extract:moment → gunzTarP ▐ ╢█████████████████████████████████████████████████░░░░░░░░░░╟ Killed 

Since it doesn't give any information I'm unsure what could be wrong here. Does anybody know how I can solve this? All tips are welcome!

[EDIT] Using the tip of @Mills in the comments I first ran npm install cross-spawn and then npm install again. This fixed the npm install issue, but when I now try to run the app using meteor it ends with "Killed" again:

$ meteor Killednloading [email protected]_4...        | 

Any more ideas?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

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.