Why do we stick to such an old version of node? Isnt it better to stick to the latest lts (--lts=dubnium -> v10.15.3) or at least to - if it has to be 8.x) --lts=carbon.
Also, installing yarn with npm install -g yarn does not work for me.
What is working like a charm is curl -o- -L https://yarnpkg.com/install.sh | bash - which should work on all unix systems.
@jensens Thanks for reporting and creating the PR. The docs was not been updated to use the lts and installation.
Also not sure why npm install -g yarn fail, though they show some deprecation warning. I have found that its better to use bash script or OS package manager to install yarn.https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/1082#issuecomment-254026649
Not sure if this was the clear cut explanation.