3481881 - could not determine executable to run

A CAP Node.js project build fails with such error:

user: FioriDemo $ npx cds build --production
npm ERR! could not determine executable to run

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /home/user/.npm/_logs/2024-06-13T13_28_49_484Z-debug-0.log

The log file contains this error message:

35 http fetch GET 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/cds 78ms (cache revalidated)
36 timing command:exec Completed in 110ms
37 verbose stack Error: could not determine executable to run
37 verbose stack     at getBinFromManifest (/local/asdf-inst-inbox-runtime/installs/nodejs/20.12.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/libnpmexec/lib/get-bin-from-manifest.js:17:23)
37 verbose stack     at exec (/local/asdf-inst-inbox-runtime/installs/nodejs/20.12.0/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/libnpmexec/lib/index.js:188:15)
37 verbose stack     at async module.exports (/local/asdf-inst-inbox-runtime/installs/nodejs/20.12.0/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cli-entry.js:61:5)
38 verbose pkgid cds@0.2.0
39 verbose cwd /home/user/projects/FioriDemo
40 verbose Linux 6.1.77-gardenlinux-cloud-amd64
41 verbose node v20.12.0
42 verbose npm  v10.5.0
43 error could not determine executable to run
44 verbose exit 1

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