error installation on Ubuntu 10.4

[maxi]

can someone help me , please?
i'm newbie with node.js

thanks

npm ERR! registry error parsing json
npm ERR! SyntaxError: Unexpected token H
npm ERR! Host not found
npm ERR! at Object.parse (native)
npm ERR! at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/
node_modules/npm/lib/utils/npm-registry-client/request.js:163:25)
npm ERR! at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:88:20)
npm ERR! at HTTPParser.onMessageComplete (http2.js:133:23)
npm ERR! at CleartextStream.ondata (http2.js:1095:22)
npm ERR! at CleartextStream._push (tls.js:328:27)
npm ERR! at SecurePair.cycle (tls.js:617:20)
npm ERR! at EncryptedStream.write (tls.js:121:13)
npm ERR! at Socket.ondata (stream.js:36:26)
npm ERR! at Socket.emit (events.js:67:17)
npm ERR! Report this *entire* log at:
npm ERR! <http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues>
npm ERR! or email it to:
npm ERR! <np...@googlegroups.com>
npm ERR!
npm ERR! System Linux 2.6.32-4-pve
npm ERR! command "node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "now" "-g"
npm ERR! cwd /home/developer/node
npm ERR! node -v v0.5.4-pre
npm ERR! npm -v 1.0.22
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/developer/node/npm-debug.log

[Eric Zhang]

I've never seen this one before!

Are you able to install other npm modules without issue?

Eric

[maxi]

No the same error with

npm install socket.io

[Eric Zhang]

This seems like a misconfiguration with npm itself.

Did you install npm by cloning the github or downloading the tarball?

[maxi]

I solved following this post

http://serverfault.com/questions/297708/why-npm-fails-to-install-socket-io-on-ubuntu

Thanks