Electron installation failure on Linux Mint 18

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I'm trying to install the latest stable build on my Linux Mint distro. I'm getting the following output and haven't figured out what's wrong. Note: this is just me trying to install it according to the instruction given in documentation.

This is on a fresh install of nodejs 9 with npm. The Linux Mint install is also fresh (only been using it 2 days now).

$ npm i -D electron@latest
npm WARN checkPermissions Missing write access to /home/nolan/node_modules
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/nolan/package.json'
npm WARN nolan No description
npm WARN nolan No repository field.
npm WARN nolan No README data
npm WARN nolan No license field.

npm ERR! path /home/nolan/node_modules
npm ERR! code EACCES
npm ERR! errno -13
npm ERR! syscall access
npm ERR! Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/home/nolan/node_modules'
npm ERR!  { Error: EACCES: permission denied, access '/home/nolan/node_modules'
npm ERR!   stack: 'Error: EACCES: permission denied, access \'/home/nolan/node_modules\'',
npm ERR!   errno: -13,
npm ERR!   code: 'EACCES',
npm ERR!   syscall: 'access',
npm ERR!   path: '/home/nolan/node_modules' }
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Please try running this command again as root/Administrator.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/nolan/.npm/_logs/2018-04-06T12_29_36_255Z-debug.log

Then when running as root as it says to try doing I get this output:

$ sudo npm i -D electron@latest

> electron@1.8.4 postinstall /home/nolan/node_modules/electron
> node install.js

/home/nolan/node_modules/electron/install.js:47
  throw err
  ^

Error: EACCES: permission denied, mkdir '/home/nolan/node_modules/electron/electron-tmp-download-17793-1523017991786'
npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, open '/home/nolan/package.json'
npm WARN nolan No description
npm WARN nolan No repository field.
npm WARN nolan No README data
npm WARN nolan No license field.

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! electron@1.8.4 postinstall: `node install.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the electron@1.8.4 postinstall script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/nolan/.npm/_logs/2018-04-06T12_33_12_101Z-debug.log