isaacs/npm — Issue #1616: Error installing latest git pull os x 10.7.2
Author: toddself
Created: 2011-10-27 20:30:27+00:00
State: open

Following the git instructions i get this:
npm ERR! Failed unpacking /tmp/npm-1319747137927/1319747137927-0.6127177998423576/tmp.tgz
npm ERR! couldn't unpack /tmp/npm-1319747137927/1319747137927-0.6127177998423576/tmp.tgz to /tmp/npm-1319747137927/1319747137927-0.6127177998423576/contents
npm ERR! Error: `tar "-zmvxpf" "/tmp/npm-1319747137927/1319747137927-0.6127177998423576/tmp.tgz" "-o"`
npm ERR! failed with 1
npm ERR! at ChildProcess. (/Users/tkennedy/src/npm/lib/utils/tar.js:219:20)
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 Darwin 11.2.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/Users/tkennedy/src/npm/cli.js" "install" "https://github.com/isaacs/ronnjs/tarball/master"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/tkennedy/src/npm
npm ERR! node -v v0.4.12
npm ERR! npm -v 1.0.103
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/tkennedy/src/npm/npm-debug.log
npm not ok
make[1]: *** [node_modules/ronn] Error 1
make: *** [man/man3/author.3] Error 2

Following the git instructions because I'm behind a massive firewall and the install.sh script from npmjs.org can't actually fetch what it needs to fetch.