Error install on Ubuntu 13.04

[sroberson]

npm install blessed returns an error:

~/termcoin$ npm install blessed
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/blessed
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/blessed
npm ERR! Error: ENOTDIR, mkdir '/home/scott/tmp/npm-8075-XhJVPyQY/1390185494907-0.14757413254119456'
npm ERR! If you need help, you may report this entire log,
npm ERR! including the npm and node versions, at:
npm ERR! http://github.com/isaacs/npm/issues

npm ERR! System Linux 3.8.0-35-generic
npm ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/bin/npm" "install" "blessed"
npm ERR! cwd /home/scott/termcoin
npm ERR! node -v v0.11.11-pre
npm ERR! npm -v 1.3.23
npm ERR! path /home/scott/tmp/npm-8075-XhJVPyQY/1390185494907-0.14757413254119456
npm ERR! code ENOTDIR
npm ERR! errno -20
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Additional logging details can be found in:
npm ERR! /home/scott/termcoin/npm-debug.log
npm ERR! not ok code 0

[mscdex]

Looks like an system/npm issue rather than an issue with this particular module. FWIW you can get more (useful) output by passing the --loglevel=silly argument to npm.

You might check permissions on /home/scott/tmp or try a stable node version (latest being v0.10.25 as of this writing).