Unable to install Appium on Ubuntu 16.04 - npm

Question

Is it because of network proxy settings in my machine? Also I am under corporate firewall.
error:Failed at the appium-chromedriver#2.9.2 install script 'node
install-npm.js'
Kindly help me to solve this issue
paranth#paranth-ThinkCentre-M73:~$ npm install -g appium
/home/paranth/.linuxbrew/bin/appium -> /home/paranth/.linuxbrew/lib/node_modules/appium/build/lib/main.js
/home/paranth/.linuxbrew/bin/authorize-ios -> /home/paranth/.linuxbrew/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/.bin/authorize-ios
> appium-chromedriver#2.9.2 install /home/paranth/.linuxbrew/lib/node_modules/appium/node_modules/appium-android-driver/node_modules/appium-chromedriver
> node install-npm.js
info Chromedriver Install Installing Chromedriver version '2.21' for platform 'linux' and architecture '64'
info Chromedriver Install Opening temp file to write chromedriver_linux64 to...
info Chromedriver Install Downloading http://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.21/chromedriver_linux64.zip...
info Chromedriver Install Writing binary content to /tmp/201694-10666-t0tuz0.b4lorsh5mi/chromedriver_linux64.zip...
info Chromedriver Install Extracting /tmp/201694-10666-t0tuz0.b4lorsh5mi/chromedriver_linux64.zip to /tmp/201694-10666-t0tuz0.b4lorsh5mi/chromedriver_linux64
Invalid or unsupported zip format. No END header found
/home/paranth/.linuxbrew/lib
`-- (empty)
npm WARN optional Skipping failed optional dependency /appium/fsevents:
npm WARN notsup Not compatible with your operating system or architecture: fsevents#1.0.14
npm ERR! Linux 4.4.0-38-generic
npm ERR! argv "/home/paranth/.linuxbrew/Cellar/node/6.7.0/bin/node" "/home/paranth/.linuxbrew/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "appium"
npm ERR! node v6.7.0
npm ERR! npm v3.10.7
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! appium-chromedriver#2.9.2 install: `node install-npm.js`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the appium-chromedriver#2.9.2 install script 'node install-npm.js'.
npm ERR! Make sure you have the latest version of node.js and npm installed.
npm ERR! If you do, this is most likely a problem with the appium-chromedriver package,
npm ERR! not with npm itself.
npm ERR! Tell the author that this fails on your system:
npm ERR! node install-npm.js
npm ERR! You can get information on how to open an issue for this project with:
npm ERR! npm bugs appium-chromedriver
npm ERR! Or if that isn't available, you can get their info via:
npm ERR! npm owner ls appium-chromedriver
npm ERR! There is likely additional logging output above.
npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR! /home/paranth/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! code 1

Answer 1

To set up android automation in linux:
a) linuxbrew installation: https://github.com/Linuxbrew/linuxbrew
b) Download and extract android sdk to home folder: http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.4.1-linux.tgz
c) Set android sdk path:
Open file by command:
sudo gedit ~/.bashrc
Add these lines at the end of the file:
adding linux brew path
export PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/bin:$PATH"
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$HOME/.linuxbrew/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
#android
export ANDROID_HOME=/home/asci/android-sdk-linux
export PATH=$PATH:$ANDROID_HOME/tools:$ANDROID_HOME/platform-tools
Close the file.
Run the command:
source ~/.bashrc
e) Run these commands one by one:
android
(It will open the sdk manager, and install all the sdk tools from the Tools folder and Android 6.0 API 23)
brew install node
npm install -g appium
appium &
(It will start the appium server needed to run automation)

Answer 2

Get out of firewall or business network and try from a personal data network. It'll work. It worked for me.
Then try "npm install -g appium"