isaacs/npm — Issue #2017: npm install https://github.com/*/*/zipball/master : couldn't unpack, Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory
Author: secoif
Created: 2012-01-10 07:02:57+00:00
State: open

I had markq on irc test and reproduce this same error.

```shell
npm install https://github.com/Marak/Faker.js/zipball/master

± % npm install https://github.com/Marak/Faker.js/zipball/master
npm http GET https://github.com/Marak/Faker.js/zipball/master
npm http 200 https://github.com/Marak/Faker.js/zipball/master
npm ERR! couldn't unpack /var/folders/sk/mbvww6yx68ddkyn_pscjj7100000gn/T/npm-1326178511948/1326178511948-0.8171416996046901/tmp.tgz to /var/folders/sk/mbvww6yx68ddkyn_pscjj7100000gn/T/npm-1326178511948/1326178511948-0.8171416996046901
npm ERR! Error: ENOENT, no such file or directory '/var/folders/sk/mbvww6yx68ddkyn_pscjj7100000gn/T/npm-1326178511948/1326178511948-0.8171416996046901/package/package.json'
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" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "https://github.com/Marak/Faker.js/zipball/master"
npm ERR! cwd /Users/secoif/Projects/groupdock/groupdock.js
npm ERR! node -v v0.6.7
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.0-beta-10
npm ERR! path /var/folders/sk/mbvww6yx68ddkyn_pscjj7100000gn/T/npm-1326178511948/1326178511948-0.8171416996046901/package/package.json
npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! message ENOENT, no such file or directory '/var/folders/sk/mbvww6yx68ddkyn_pscjj7100000gn/T/npm-1326178511948/1326178511948-0.8171416996046901/package/package.json'
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /Users/***/npm-debug.log
npm not ok
```

Perhaps github has changed regarding the archive format or something.
This issue occurred on both npm 1.0.106, and 1.1.0-beta-10.
I'm using
node 0.6.7 and
bsdtar 2.8.3 - libarchive 2.8.3 on
OSX 10.7.2