npm ERR! err.code.match is not a function

I've been running into this error when trying to build the project. This is happening for the zeppelin-web plugin

[INFO] Running 'npm install --legacy-peer-deps' in /home/perla/zeppelin/zeppelin/zeppelin-web
[DEBUG] Executing command line [/home/perla/zeppelin/zeppelin/zeppelin-web/node/node, /home/perla/zeppelin/zeppelin/zeppelin-web/node/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js, install, --legacy-peer-deps]
[ERROR] npm ERR! err.code.match is not a function
[ERROR]
[ERROR] npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
[ERROR] npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2023-05-19T09_19_34_604Z-debug.log

 
These are my npm and node versions:

npm --version
6.9.0

node --version
v12.3.1 

I have tried building the project with multiple different versions of node and npm and they all throw different errors. But I assumed this would be the most correct approach as it follows the versions specified in the pom.xml.
Contents of the pom.xml:

<node.version>v12.3.1</node.version>
<npm.version>6.9.0</npm.version> 

The latest test I did was after completely deleting both node, npm, and nvm from my system and doing a clean install using the versions specified above.
 
I am building the 10.1 tag on github using this command:

mvn clean package -DskipTests -Pspark-3.0 -Pvendor-repo -rf :zeppelin-web -e -X 

A more complete traceback of the log will be attached to this issue.
 
This is a major blocker that's preventing me from building the project from source. I've been dealing with this issue for a couple days now with no meaningful progress. Any help on this would be very appreciated.