Well, I finally got it installed. Had to switch to 2011Q4 Realm (it’s a NearlyFreeSpeech thing). It installed but I can’t use it to download the core. It might work for updates but not for install. Technical support said it might be a FreeBSD vs Linux tar difference.
Here’s the output.
[lukejanicke ~]$ cd /home/public
[lukejanicke /home/public]$ wp core download
Downloading latest WordPress (en_US)...
tar: Error opening archive: Failed to open '/dev/sa0'
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 4895k 0 16057 0 0 57623 0 0:01:26 --:--:-- 0:01:26 64485
curl: (23) Failed writing body (0 != 16057)
[lukejanicke /home/public]$ ls -al
total 11
drwxrwxrwx 2 215905 web 3 Jun 13 08:13 .
drwxr-xr-x 7 root 215905 7 May 12 07:26 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 215905 215905 1954 Jun 13 08:20 installer.sh
[lukejanicke /home/public]$