install serialport errors on raspi

[a7hybnj2]

uname -a - Linux raspberrypi 5.4.42-v8+ #1319 SMP PREEMPT Wed May 20 14:18:56 BST 2020 aarch64 GNU/Linux npm -v - 6.14.6 node -v - v10.22.1

Installing via this guide

Getting the following errors from this sudo npm install serialport --unsafe-perm --build-from-source command.

found 42 vulnerabilities (37 low, 2 moderate, 3 high)
  run `npm audit fix` to fix them, or `npm audit` for details                                                      
pi@raspberrypi:~/lw.comm-server $ npm audit
npm ERR! code ELOCKVERIFY
npm ERR! Errors were found in your package-lock.json, run  npm install  to fix them.
npm ERR!     Missing: hdiutil@0.0.6

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-09-29T00_09_30_255Z-debug.log
pi@raspberrypi:~/lw.comm-server $ npm audit fix
npm ERR! code ELOCKVERIFY
npm ERR! Errors were found in your package-lock.json, run  npm install  to fix them.
npm ERR!     Missing: hdiutil@0.0.6

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2020-09-29T00_09_56_322Z-debug.log

I tired to manually install the package but can't see to find it or figure it out.

[cprezzi]

Did you try to run sudo npm install as the error message is sugesting?

[a7hybnj2]

Yes. I have now run sudo npm install, sudo npm audit fix, and sudo npm audit fix --force. I hope I am getting close to all the packages being installed.

[cprezzi]

Do NOT run the audit fix commands as this will update the used libraries to incompatible new versions!

[a7hybnj2]

😬 guess the best thing at this point would be to start over and not try to fix any errors.