"npm ERR! Tell the package author to fix their package.json file. JSON.parse"

[temporalparts]

I get the following error when trying to install via npm:

user@lubuntu$ sudo npm install email-verificationtoken
npm WARN package.json home-server@0.0.1 No README.md file found!
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/email-verificationtoken
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/email-verificationtoken
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/email-verificationtoken/-/email-verificationtoken-0.0.3.tgz
npm http 200 https://registry.npmjs.org/email-verificationtoken/-/email-verificationtoken-0.0.3.tgz
npm ERR! Failed to parse json
npm ERR! Unexpected token n
npm ERR! File: /home/user/tmp/npm-8543/1347068011962-0.5777149784844369/package/package.json
npm ERR! Failed to parse package.json data.
npm ERR! package.json must be actual JSON, not just JavaScript.
npm ERR!
npm ERR! This is not a bug in npm.
npm ERR! Tell the package author to fix their package.json file. JSON.parse

npm ERR! System Linux 3.2.0-30-generic
npm ERR! command "nodejs" "/usr/bin/npm" "install" "email-verificationtoken"
npm ERR! cwd /home/user/swrmit/Swrmit/server
npm ERR! node -v v0.8.8
npm ERR! npm -v 1.1.59
npm ERR! file /home/user/tmp/npm-8543/1347068011962-0.5777149784844369/package/package.json
npm ERR! code EJSONPARSE
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/user/swrmit/Swrmit/server/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

Thanks in advance

[joshontheweb]

having same issue, although its hard to nail down what exactly the problem with the package.json is...

[alfredwesterveld]

I should delete this package because I had hardly developed it.