vue create myappでMissing required argument #1と出たら

vue cliでアプリケーションを作った際に起きたことをメモ

環境

virtual boxでの仮想環境on Windows 10
OS: ubuntu 18.04
WSLは特有の謎現象が多いので趣味で使うのをやめた

背景

vue cliをインストール&アプリケーションを新規作成

npm install -g @vue/cli
sudo vue create my app

エラー内容(ディレクトリ名などに含まれる具体的な名称は消してます)

Vue CLI v4.5.9
 WARN  You are using an outdated version of NPM.
there may be unexpected errors during installation.
Please upgrade your NPM version.
✨  Creating project in /home/Project/myapp/myapp.
⚙️  Installing CLI plugins. This might take a while...

npm ERR! Linux 5.4.0-53-generic
npm ERR! argv "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "--loglevel" "error" "@vue/cli-plugin-babel@~4.5.0" "@vue/cli-plugin-eslint@~4.5.0" "@vue/cli-service@~4.5.0" "--save-dev"
npm ERR! node v8.10.0
npm ERR! npm  v3.5.2
npm ERR! code EMISSINGARG

npm ERR! typeerror Error: Missing required argument #1
npm ERR! typeerror     at andLogAndFinish (/usr/share/npm/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js:31:3)
npm ERR! typeerror     at fetchPackageMetadata (/usr/share/npm/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js:51:22)
npm ERR! typeerror     at resolveWithNewModule (/usr/share/npm/lib/install/deps.js:456:12)
npm ERR! typeerror     at /usr/share/npm/lib/install/deps.js:457:7
npm ERR! typeerror     at /usr/share/npm/node_modules/iferr/index.js:13:50
npm ERR! typeerror     at /usr/share/npm/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js:37:12
npm ERR! typeerror     at addRequestedAndFinish (/usr/share/npm/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js:82:5)
npm ERR! typeerror     at returnAndAddMetadata (/usr/share/npm/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js:117:7)
npm ERR! typeerror     at pickVersionFromRegistryDocument (/usr/share/npm/lib/fetch-package-metadata.js:134:20)
npm ERR! typeerror     at /usr/share/npm/node_modules/iferr/index.js:13:50
npm ERR! typeerror This is an error with npm itself. Please report this error at:
npm ERR! typeerror     <http://github.com/npm/npm/issues>

npm ERR! Please include the following file with any support request:
npm ERR!     /home/Project/myapp/myapp/npm-debug.log
 ERROR  command failed: npm install --loglevel error @vue/cli-plugin-babel@~4.5.0 @vue/cli-plugin-eslint@~4.5.0 @vue/cli-service@~4.5.0 --save-dev

対処

ここに書いてあった。

sudo npm install -g n
sudo n latest
sudo npm install -g npm
hash -d npm
npm i

一通り実行したところアプリケーションの作成に成功した。