Bug: installing @storybook/react fails on Ubuntu 18.04

[aewing]

Bug or support request summary

Attempted to install @storybook/react on Ubuntu 18.04 using node v8.9.3 (nvm).
Expected installation to succeed, but was instead presented with an ENOENT error for detect-port

Steps to reproduce

In a fresh project on Ubuntu 18.04:
npm i @storybook/react --save-dev

Please specify which version of Storybook and optionally any affected addons that you're running

• @storybook/react: 3.1.8, 3.4.3

Affected platforms

Ubuntu 18.04
Node v8.9.3
npm 5.5.1
nvm 0.33.9

Full error message

npm ERR! path /projects/storybook/node_modules/detect-port-alt/bin/detect-port
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall chmod
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, chmod '/projects/storybook/node_modules/detect-port-alt/bin/detect-port'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/aewing/.npm/_logs/2018-05-02T23_44_28_477Z-debug.log

[aewing]

I suspect this may be an NPM issue, as I was able to install successfully after installing npm v6.0 with:

$ npm i -g npm