unable to install with npm

[mmcfall]

Installing with node v0.4.8, npm 1.0.15, centOS 5.5-64. Getting following error:

npm ERR! tar "-mvxpf" "-" "-o" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1310337053203/1310337053203-0.9732671466190368/contents/___package.npm" tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword LIBARCHIVE.creationtime' npm ERR! tar "-mvxpf" "-" "-o" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1310337053203/1310337053203-0.9732671466190368/contents/___package.npm" tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keywordSCHILY.dev' npm ERR! tar "-mvxpf" "-" "-o" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1310337053203/1310337053203-0.9732671466190368/contents/___package.npm" tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword SCHILY.ino' npm ERR! tar "-mvxpf" "-" "-o" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1310337053203/1310337053203-0.9732671466190368/contents/___package.npm" tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keywordSCHILY.nlink'

and then it repeats until:

npm ERR! tar "-mvxpf" "-" "-o" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1310337053203/1310337053203-0.9732671466190368/contents/___package.npm" tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors npm ERR! tar "-mvxpf" "-" "-o" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1310337053203/1310337053203-0.9732671466190368/contents/___package.npm" npm ERR! Failed unpacking /tmp/npm-1310337053203/1310337053203-0.9732671466190368/tmp.tgz npm ERR! couldn't unpack /tmp/npm-1310337053203/1310337053203-0.9732671466190368/tmp.tgz to /tmp/npm-1310337053203/1310337053203-0.9732671466190368/contents npm ERR! Error: Failed tar "-mvxpf" "-" "-o" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1310337053203/1310337053203-0.9732671466190368/contents/___package.npm" npm ERR! exited with 2 npm ERR! at ChildProcess. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/exec.js:85:8) npm ERR! at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:67:17) npm ERR! at ChildProcess.onexit (child_process.js:192:12) npm ERR! Report this entire log at: npm ERR! http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues npm ERR! or email it to: npm ERR! [email protected] npm ERR! npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.18-194.11.3.el5 npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "websocket-client" npm ERR! cwd /home/admin npm ERR! node -v v0.4.8 npm ERR! npm -v 1.0.15 npm ERR! npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in: npm ERR! /home/admin/npm-debug.log npm not ok

Same thing happens when doing npm install websocket-client. Possibly related?

Michael

[yyfrankyy]

me too.same problem, node 0.4.10, npm 1.0.1rc9

[isaacs]

Update the version of tar on your system.