さくらVPSのCentOSでnode.jsのsocket.ioをインストールしようしてエラー

$ npm install socket.io
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npm ERR! error installing socket.io@0.8.4     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:45:17)
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npm ERR! Error: Failed tar "-mvxpf" "-" "-o" "-C" "/tmp/npm-1315624604792/1315624604792-0.731322419596836/contents/___package.npm"
npm ERR! exited with 2
npm ERR!     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/piglovesyou/.nave/installed/0.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/exec.js:85:8)
npm ERR!     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:45:17)
npm ERR!     at ChildProcess.onexit (child_process.js:171:12)
npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at:
npm ERR!     <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR!     <npm-@googlegroups.com>
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.18-194.26.1.el5
npm ERR! command "node" "/home/piglovesyou/.nave/installed/0.4.1/bin/npm" "install" "socket.io"
npm ERR! cwd /home/piglovesyou/node
npm ERR! node -v v0.4.1
(node) warning: possible EventEmitter memory leak detected. 11 listeners added. Use emitter.setMaxListeners() to increase limit.
Trace: 
    at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (events.js:101:17)
    at Object.write (/home/piglovesyou/.nave/installed/0.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/output.js:96:12)
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    at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:42:17)
    at log (/home/piglovesyou/.nave/installed/0.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/log.js:127:7)
    at Function.<anonymous> (/home/piglovesyou/.nave/installed/0.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/log.js:56:39)
    at errorHandler (/home/piglovesyou/.nave/installed/0.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/utils/error-handler.js:172:7)
    at cb (/home/piglovesyou/.nave/installed/0.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/install.js:152:20)
    at cb (/home/piglovesyou/.nave/installed/0.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/install.js:342:32)
    at cb (/home/piglovesyou/.nave/installed/0.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/slide/lib/async-map.js:48:11)
npm ERR! npm -v 1.0.27
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/piglovesyou/node/npm-debug.log
npm not ok

tarが古かった
https://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues/1253#issuecomment-1838895
あたらしくする

$ cat /etc/redhat-release 
CentOS release 5.6 (Final)
$ tar --version
tar (GNU tar) 1.15.1
$ wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.26.tar.gz 
$ tar xzvf tar-1.26.tar.gz
$ cd tar-1.26
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

osを再起動（ほかの方法を知らない。。）

$ tar --version            
tar (GNU tar) 1.26
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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.
$ ~/my-node-path/
$ npm install socket.io
socket.io@0.8.4 ./node_modules/socket.io 
├── redis@0.6.6
├── policyfile@0.0.4
└── socket.io-client@0.8.4

ふーっ

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追記
tar のconfigure にオプションをつけないといけないケースがあるようです
http://d.hatena.ne.jp/oggata/20110913/1315924766

./configure FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1