I am trying to use rvm to install ruby 1.8.7 and I get the

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I am trying to use rvm to install ruby 1.8.7 and I get the

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I am trying to use rvm to install ruby 1.8.7 and I get the following error:

ruby-1.8.7-p334 - #extracting ruby-1.8.7-p334 to /Users/vincent/.rvm/src/ruby-1.8.7-p334
ERROR: Error running 'bunzip2 < '/Users/vincent/.rvm/archives/ruby-1.8.7-p334.tar.bz2' | tar xf --no-same-owner - -C /Users/vincent/.rvm/tmp/rvm_src_50863', please read /Users/vincent/.rvm/log/ruby-1.8.7-p334/extract.log
ERROR: There has been an error while trying to extract the source.  
Halting the installation.
ERROR: There has been an error fetching the ruby interpreter. Halting the installation.

This is the log:

[2011-04-27 14:26:21] bunzip2 < '/Users/vincent/.rvm/archives/ruby-1.8.7-p334.tar.bz2' | tar xf --no-same-owner - -C /Users/vincent/.rvm/tmp/rvm_src_49627
tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '--no-same-owner': No such file or directory
[2011-04-27 14:34:53] bunzip2 < '/Users/vincent/.rvm/archives/ruby-1.8.7-p334.tar.bz2' | tar xf --no-same-owner - -C /Users/vincent/.rvm/tmp/rvm_src_50007
tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '--no-same-owner': No such file or directory
[2011-04-27 14:41:20] bunzip2 < '/Users/vincent/.rvm/archives/ruby-1.8.7-p334.tar.bz2' | tar xf --no-same-owner - -C /Users/vincent/.rvm/tmp/rvm_src_50572
tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '--no-same-owner': No such file or directory
[2011-04-27 14:45:38] bunzip2 < '/Users/vincent/.rvm/archives/ruby-1.8.7-p334.tar.bz2' | tar xf --no-same-owner - -C /Users/vincent/.rvm/tmp/rvm_src_50863
tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '--no-same-owner': No such file or directory

any help would be greatly appreciated.