Sqlite dependency with etherpad-lite

I'm trying to get etherpad-lite to work with sqlite. When I run it with that setting I get this handy error message

[2015-12-10 15:52:53.162] [ERROR] console - FATAL: The sqlite dependency could not be loaded. We removed it from the dependencies since it caused problems on several Platforms to compile it. If you still want to use sqlite, do a 'npm install sqlite3' in your etherpad-lite root folder

However after following the instructions, and seeing the sqlite3 files get installed in the node_modules directory, I still get the same error message.

I'm at a loss at what to troubleshoot next. Any suggestions?