installing node.js on ubuntu

Installing node.js

As mine was a clean Ubuntu installation, I needed to install certain libraries first.

sudo apt-get install g++ curl libssl-dev apache2-utils

The easiest way is to download node.js is to get a git clone. For that I needed to install the git package.

sudo apt-get install git-core

Now download node.js with git.

git clone git://github.com/ry/node.git

If you do not want to use git you could get the tar package instead.

wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.1.96.tar.gz
gunzip node-v0.1.96.tar.gz
tar -xf node-v0.1.96.tar

 

apt-get install pkg-config

Now you are ready to install node.js.

cd node
./configure
make
sudo make install