isaacs/npm — Issue #1565: FATAL: NPM install failed
Author: bminer
Created: 2011-10-17 21:16:25+00:00
State: open

Running curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh...

```
tar=/bin/tar
version:
tar (GNU tar) 1.23
Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later .
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by John Gilmore and Jay Fenlason.
Installing without make. This may fail.
fetching: http://registry.npmjs.org/npm/-/npm-1.0.99.tgz
0.4.12
1.0.99
cleanup prefix=/usr
find: `/usr/lib/node': No such file or directory
find: `/usr/lib/node': No such file or directory

All clean!
npm ERR! Failed unpacking /home/ubuntu/.npm/npm/1.0.99/package.tgz
npm ERR! error installing npm@1.0.99 Error: `tar "-zmvxpf" "/home/ubuntu/.npm/npm/1.0.99/package.tgz" "-o"`
npm ERR! error installing npm@1.0.99 failed with 2
npm ERR! error installing npm@1.0.99 at ChildProcess. (/tmp/npm.1867/package/lib/utils/tar.js:219:20)
npm ERR! error installing npm@1.0.99 at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR! error installing npm@1.0.99 at Socket. (child_process.js:172:12)
npm ERR! error installing npm@1.0.99 at Socket.emit (events.js:64:17)
npm ERR! error installing npm@1.0.99 at Array.0 (net.js:831:12)
npm ERR! error installing npm@1.0.99 at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:126:26)
npm ERR! Error: `tar "-zmvxpf" "/home/ubuntu/.npm/npm/1.0.99/package.tgz" "-o"`
npm ERR! failed with 2
npm ERR! at ChildProcess. (/tmp/npm.1867/package/lib/utils/tar.js:219:20)
npm ERR! at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR! at Socket. (child_process.js:172:12)
npm ERR! at Socket.emit (events.js:64:17)
npm ERR! at Array.0 (net.js:831:12)
npm ERR! at EventEmitter._tickCallback (node.js:126:26)
npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at:
npm ERR!
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.35-30-virtual
npm ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/tmp/npm.1867/package/cli.js" "install" "-gf"
npm ERR! cwd /tmp/npm.1867/package
npm ERR! node -v v0.4.12
npm ERR! npm -v 1.0.99
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /tmp/npm.1867/package/npm-debug.log
npm not ok
It failed
```