npm install for package with local dependency fails

[darcyclarke]

  Original bug ticket: [https://npm.community/t/754](https://npm.community/t/754)
  Originally filed: 2018-07-20T04:11:04.425Z

[HosseinAgha]

Hi @darcyclarke is #327 the same? Could you please fix the link in the markdown?
I'm still experiencing this issue.

[darcyclarke]

Thanks @HosseinAgha! We're going to go through the backlog here this week and ensure things are tagged/labelled accordingly (markdown links will get updated appropriately as well).

Appreciate you following up after this got migrated and I removed the duplicate issue.

[ARitz-Cracker]

Hey, so, if you, the reader, were like me and were creating tarballs and using them with npm for internal purposes, and then died a little inside thinking you've discovered a bug in npm, please make sure you don't put your package files in the root of the tarball, instead, put them in a sub-folder called "package" or you will get strange errors like the one the the reporter was getting.

so, your tarball should look like
package/package.json
package/index.js
...etc.

Don't lose hope.