An error occurred when installing according to readme: Couldn't read dependencies

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root@vm:~# curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ropez/nvx/master/nvx.sh | sh -s v0.10.38 npm install
npm ERR! install Couldn't read dependencies
npm ERR! package.json ENOENT, open '/root/package.json'
npm ERR! package.json This is most likely not a problem with npm itself.
npm ERR! package.json npm can't find a package.json file in your current directory.

npm ERR! System Linux 6.8.0-62-generic
npm ERR! command "/root/.nvx/v0.10.38/bin/node" "/root/.nvx/v0.10.38/bin/npm" "install"
npm ERR! cwd /root
npm ERR! node -v v0.10.38
npm ERR! npm -v 1.4.28
npm ERR! path /root/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOPACKAGEJSON
npm ERR! errno 34
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0
root@vm:~#