title: Not able to install appium using node.js
body: <p>Currently getting an error while trying to install the Appium using Node.js (Windows 10). For more information please refer to the below log file. Can you please help ?</p>
  
  <pre><code>12808 warn optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@2.0.1 (node_modules\appium\node_modules\fsevents):
  12809 warn notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@2.0.1: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})
  12810 verbose notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Valid OS:    darwin
  12810 verbose notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Valid Arch:  any
  12810 verbose notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Actual OS:   win32
  12810 verbose notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Actual Arch: x64
  12811 verbose stack Error: appium-chromedriver@4.10.1 install: `node install-npm.js`
  12811 verbose stack Exit status 1
  12811 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.&lt;anonymous&gt; (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\index.js:301:16)
  12811 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:182:13)
  12811 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.&lt;anonymous&gt; (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\lib\spawn.js:55:14)
  12811 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
  12811 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:962:16)
  12811 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:251:5)
  12812 verbose pkgid appium-chromedriver@4.10.1
  12813 verbose cwd C:\Users\test
  12814 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.17763
  12815 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "install" "-g" "appium" "-unsafe-perm=true" "-allow-root"
  12816 verbose node v10.15.0
  12817 verbose npm  v6.4.1
  12818 error code ELIFECYCLE
  12819 error errno 1
  12820 error appium-chromedriver@4.10.1 install: `node install-npm.js`
  12820 error Exit status 1
  **12821 error Failed at the appium-chromedriver@4.10.1 install script.
  12821 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
  12822 verbose exit [ 1, true ]**
  </code></pre>