ERROR: Error: Cannot find module '../encodings'

[Joe-Stoker]

I was following the helloWorld tutorial found here: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-functions-emulator

At this step functions deploy helloWorld --trigger-http, I get the following error:

functions deploy helloWorld --trigger-http
ERROR: Error: Cannot find module '../encodings'
at RequestError.Error (native)
at new RequestError (/home/joe/.nvm/versions/node/v6.14.4/lib/node_modules/@google-cloud/functions-emulator/node_modules/googleapis/node_modules/google-auth-library/lib/transporters.js:34:42)
at Request._callback (/home/joe/.nvm/versions/node/v6.14.4/lib/node_modules/@google-cloud/functions-emulator/node_modules/googleapis/node_modules/google-auth-library/lib/transporters.js:108:23)
at Request.self.callback (/home/joe/.nvm/versions/node/v6.14.4/lib/node_modules/@google-cloud/functions-emulator/node_modules/request/request.js:185:22)
at emitTwo (events.js:106:13)
at Request.emit (events.js:191:7)
at Request. (/home/joe/.nvm/versions/node/v6.14.4/lib/node_modules/@google-cloud/functions-emulator/node_modules/request/request.js:1161:10)
at emitOne (events.js:96:13)
at Request.emit (events.js:188:7)
at IncomingMessage. (/home/joe/.nvm/versions/node/v6.14.4/lib/node_modules/@google-cloud/functions-emulator/node_modules/request/request.js:1083:12)

node -v: v6.14.4
npm -v: 3.10.10
Using Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS
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