ganache-cli : installation error Unexpected token { [SOLVED]

If you are here to resolve the following error while installing ganache-cli

/usr/local/lib/node_modules/ganache-cli/cli.js:8
var {toChecksumAddress, BN} = require("ethereumjs-util");
    ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token {
    at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16)
    at Module._compile (module.js:374:25)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:417:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:344:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:301:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:442:10)
    at startup (node.js:136:18)
    at node.js:966:3

The following commands will resolve this as follows :

sudo apt-get install curl python-software-properties
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install curl
curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_10.x | sudo -E bash -
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs