Why does wiredep keep removing my bower component?

Whenever the wiredep grunt task runs, it removes socketio.

~/.g/p/g/g/s/b/f/brody % git diff
diff --git a/app/app/index.html b/app/app/index.html
index 9abc970..f9dd603 100644
--- a/app/app/index.html
+++ b/app/app/index.html
@@ -65,7 +65,6 @@
     <!-- build:js(.) scripts/vendor.js -->
     <!-- bower:js -->
     <script src="bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js"></script>
-    <script src="bower_components/socket.io-client/socket.io.js"></script>
     <script src="bower_components/angular/angular.js"></script>
     <script src="bower_components/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js"></script>
     <script src="bower_components/angular-animate/angular-animate.js"></script>
diff --git a/app/test/karma.conf.js b/app/test/karma.conf.js
index 710f26a..ab51cc6 100644
--- a/app/test/karma.conf.js
+++ b/app/test/karma.conf.js
@@ -20,7 +20,6 @@ module.exports = function(config) {
     files: [
       // bower:js
       'bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.js',
-      'bower_components/socket.io-client/socket.io.js',
       'bower_components/angular/angular.js',
       'bower_components/bootstrap/dist/js/bootstrap.js',
       'bower_components/angular-animate/angular-animate.js',
~/.g/p/g/g/s/b/f/brody % 

I have had socketio installed via

bower install socket.io-client --save 

And the package is in my bower.json

{
  "name": "app",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "dependencies": {
    "socket.io-client": "~1.3.4",
    "angular": "^1.3.0",
    "bootstrap": "^3.2.0",
    "angular-animate": "^1.3.0",
    "angular-aria": "^1.3.0",
    "angular-cookies": "^1.3.0",
    "angular-messages": "^1.3.0",
    "angular-resource": "^1.3.0",
    "angular-route": "^1.3.0",
    "angular-sanitize": "^1.3.0",
    "angular-touch": "^1.3.0",
    "angular-socket-io": "~0.7.0",
    "message-center": "https://github.com/mateu-aguilo-bosch/message-center.git#~1.1.4"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "angular-mocks": "^1.3.0"
  },
  "appPath": "app",
  "moduleName": "appApp"
}

When I run bower install nothing changes.

The app builds fine on my mac, but for some crazy reason, it keeps removing socketio and fails to build on my ubuntu machine.

Searching for socket.io-client on bower produces a package named sio-client, but nothing named socket.io-client.

Try:

"sio-client": "~1.3.4"

in your bower.json and it should straighten out.