cannot install with npm on mac

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1355 warn testmonitor@1.0.0 No description 1356 warn testmonitor@1.0.0 No repository field. 1357 verbose stack Error: appmetrics@4.0.0 install: node extract_all_binaries.js || node-gyp rebuild1357 verbose stack Exit status 1 1357 verbose stack at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/index.js:285:16) 1357 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:126:13) 1357 verbose stack at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:214:7) 1357 verbose stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/npm-lifecycle/lib/spawn.js:55:14) 1357 verbose stack at emitTwo (events.js:126:13) 1357 verbose stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:214:7) 1357 verbose stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:925:16) 1357 verbose stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:209:5) 1358 verbose pkgid appmetrics@4.0.0 1359 verbose cwd /Users/amirb/Documents/progEx/testMonitor 1360 verbose Darwin 16.7.0 1361 verbose argv "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "i" "appmetrics" 1362 verbose node v8.11.1 1363 verbose npm v5.6.0 1364 error code ELIFECYCLE 1365 error errno 1 1366 error appmetrics@4.0.0 install:node extract_all_binaries.js || node-gyp rebuild 1366 error Exit status 1 1367 error Failed at the appmetrics@4.0.0 install script. 1367 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above. 1368 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

node v8.11.1
npm 5.6.0