Issue with offline install

[davidschutze]

Trying to do the offline install and ran into two issues:

• When doing step number 4 and running tar -xvfo npmbox.npmbox I get the following Terminal error: tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open 'o'

If I run the command without as tar -xvf npmbox.npmbox (without the 'o') it runs fine and creates the .npmbox-cache folder. Not sure if that's critical or not.

• After doing the above, I run the code in step 5 npm install --global --cache ./.npmbox-cache --optional --cache-min 999999 --fetch-retries 0 --fetch-retry-factor 0 --fetch-retry-mintimeout 1 --fetch-retry-maxtimeout 2 npmbox (copied and pasted into Ternimal). When I do that I the first thing that comes up are npm GET requests to the npm registry url followed by network errors that the tunneling socket could not be established and I'm most likely behind a proxy.

Seems like the offline install of npmbox is not working properly or I'm doing something wrong.

In case it matters: npm v1.3.21, node v0.10.24

[arei]

The first problem is a known issue for some versions of tar on different operating systems. Upgrading to npm 1.4.28 or later (but not mor than 1.0.0) will solve the second problem.