isaacs/npm — Issue #1655: Unable to install markdown
Author: jlleblanc
Created: 2011-11-05 03:20:20+00:00
State: open

Encountered an error similar to #1594 when attempting to install markdown:

npm ERR! Failed unpacking /var/folders/Wk/WkX9yPHAFmmkKLkd0NjMpE+++TI/-Tmp-/npm-1320463042486/1320463042486-0.6991757173091173/tmp.tgz
npm ERR! couldn't unpack /var/folders/Wk/WkX9yPHAFmmkKLkd0NjMpE+++TI/-Tmp-/npm-1320463042486/1320463042486-0.6991757173091173/tmp.tgz to /var/folders/Wk/WkX9yPHAFmmkKLkd0NjMpE+++TI/-Tmp-/npm-1320463042486/1320463042486-0.6991757173091173/contents
npm ERR! Error: `tar "-zmvxpf" "/var/folders/Wk/WkX9yPHAFmmkKLkd0NjMpE+++TI/-Tmp-/npm-1320463042486/1320463042486-0.6991757173091173/tmp.tgz" "-o"`
npm ERR! failed with 2
npm ERR! at ChildProcess. (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/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 10.8.0
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "-g" "markdown"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/josephleblanc
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/josephleblanc/npm-debug.log
npm not ok