isaacs/npm — Issue #1559: installing socket.io failed
Author: oc666
Created: 2011-10-17 13:57:16+00:00
State: open

Hey
When I'm installing socket.io package I'm getting the next error:
```
> npm install socket.io
npm ERR! Failed unpacking /tmp/npm-1318859202362/1318859213699-0.8539480604231358/tmp.tgz
npm ERR! couldn't unpack /tmp/npm-1318859202362/1318859213699-0.8539480604231358/tmp.tgz to /tmp/npm-1318859202362/1318859213699-0.8539480604231358/contents
npm ERR! error installing socket.io-client@0.8.5 Error: `tar "-zmvxpf" "/tmp/npm-1318859202362/1318859213699-0.8539480604231358/tmp.tgz" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1318859202362/1318859213699-0.8539480604231358/contents/___package.npm" ["-o"]`
npm ERR! error installing socket.io-client@0.8.5 failed with 2
npm ERR! error installing socket.io-client@0.8.5 at ChildProcess. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/tar.js:182:20)
npm ERR! error installing socket.io-client@0.8.5 at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR! error installing socket.io-client@0.8.5 at ChildProcess.onexit (child_process.js:192:12)
npm ERR! error installing socket.io@0.8.5 Error: `tar "-zmvxpf" "/tmp/npm-1318859202362/1318859213699-0.8539480604231358/tmp.tgz" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1318859202362/1318859213699-0.8539480604231358/contents/___package.npm" ["-o"]`
npm ERR! error installing socket.io@0.8.5 failed with 2
npm ERR! error installing socket.io@0.8.5 at ChildProcess. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/tar.js:182:20)
npm ERR! error installing socket.io@0.8.5 at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR! error installing socket.io@0.8.5 at ChildProcess.onexit (child_process.js:192:12)
npm ERR! Error: `tar "-zmvxpf" "/tmp/npm-1318859202362/1318859213699-0.8539480604231358/tmp.tgz" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1318859202362/1318859213699-0.8539480604231358/contents/___package.npm" ["-o"]`
npm ERR! failed with 2
npm ERR! at ChildProcess. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/tar.js:182:20)
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!
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.centos.plusPAE
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "socket.io"
npm ERR! cwd /home/myusername
npm ERR! node -v v0.4.12
npm ERR! npm -v 1.0.94
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/myusername/npm-debug.log
npm not ok
```
My python version is 2.4.3

Thanks in advance for your support