`npm install` ends with "Killed"

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?

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

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.

To solve this issue on 14.04 and 16.04:

sudo fallocate -l 1G /swapfile
sudo chmod 600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
sudo swapon --show
sudo cp /etc/fstab /etc/fstab.bak
echo '/swapfile none swap sw 0 0' | sudo tee -a /etc/fstab
sudo sysctl vm.swappiness=10
echo 'vm.swappiness=10' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf
sudo sysctl vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50
echo 'vm.vfs_cache_pressure=50' | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf

This will create a swap file of 1GB