Error: Cannot find module 'update-notifier'

[adrelino]

Currently qooxdoo-compiler as in npm is broken after initial install

sudo npm install -g @qooxdoo/compiler

$ qx
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:638
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'update-notifier'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:636:15)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:562:25)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:692:17)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:25:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/@qooxdoo/compiler/bin/deploy/qx:3:24)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:789:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:653:32)
    at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:593:12)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:585:3)

My environment is Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS with:

$ node --version
v10.19.0
$ npm --version
7.9.0
$ uname -r
5.8.0-49-generic