cspell: cspell fails to install using nodeenv

While trying to enable cspell to be used a pre-commit hook, I faces a new issue, failure to install when doing:

pip install --user nodeenv
git clone https://github.com/Jason3S/cspell
cd cspell
nodeenv nenv
. nenv/bin/activate
npm install -g .

The last command fails with:

$ npm install -g .                                                                                                                                                                                          [21:18:12]
npm ERR! path /home/ssbarnea/cspell/nenv/lib/node_modules/cspell/dist/app.js
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! errno -2
npm ERR! syscall chmod
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, chmod '/home/ssbarnea/cspell/nenv/lib/node_modules/cspell/dist/app.js'
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/ssbarnea/.npm/_logs/2018-07-04T21_18_18_526Z-debug.log
(nenv)FAIL: 254