Installing Gulp locally fails - node.js

Question

I have Node.js and npm installed on Ubuntu 14.04.
nodejs -v
v0.10.25
node -v
v0.10.25
npm -v
1.3.10
I have also installed Gulp globally with npm install gulp -g.
gulp -v
CLI version 3.9.0
Now in my project when I try to install Gulp locally with npm install gulp I get a lot of errors. I have copied them to Pastebin: http://pastebin.com/VWdPLNQS
If I try to run gulp watch in my project directory, I get
Local gulp not found in /var/www
Try running: npm install gulp
What do I need to do?
I tried this on Windows too. The Ubuntu installation is running with Vagrant. I have it installed so that it shares the /var/www directory with the host machine.
First I downloaded Node.js from their website and after that I ran
npm install -g bower
npm install -g gulp
No errors. Then I opened command prompt in Windows and changed directory to the folder where /var/www is linked. I ran npm install. My package.json contains the following
{
"private": true,
"devDependencies": {
"gulp": "^3.8.8",
"laravel-elixir": "^2.0.0"
}
}
No errors. I tried running gulp in the Ubuntu terminal after this installation but I got errors:
Error: Cannot find module 'isobject'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/node_modules/laravel-elixir/node_modules/watchify/node_modules/chokidar/node_modules/anymatch/node_modules/micromatch/node_modules/braces/node_modules/expand-range/node_modules/fill-range/index.js:10:16)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
I switched to Windows and run gulp, everything worked.

Answer 1

Try to install never version of Node.js and NPM:
Remove node_modules, then remove gulp globally and locally.
After that make sure you are on newer nodejs, like 6+
Install gulp globally
Check permissions on folder you are trying to use, run chown [your_user_name] [folder_name] -R
I think updating node/npm update should resolve your problem.