Installing Latest NodeJS in Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10

Submitted by admin on Mon, 12/05/2011 - 11:03

I use NodeJS 0.6.5 as the latest version which also contain NPM inside. You can go to http://nodejs.org/#download for download the latest version of NodeJS.
Then open your terminal and follow this steps. I use NodeJS 0.6.5 for this guide.

cd ~/
sudo apt-get install git-core curl build-essential openssl libssl-dev pkg-config
mkdir ~/local
wget -c http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.17/node-v0.6.17.tar.gz
tar -xvvf node-v0.6.17.tar.gz
cd node-v0.6.17/
export JOBS=2
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/node
make
make install
echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/node/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.profile
echo 'export NODE_PATH=$HOME/local/node:$HOME/local/node/lib/node_modules' >> ~/.profile
source ~/.profile

Set your /etc/environment to load your nodejs globally ( to root user and anothers ) , for example :

NODE="/home/ubuntu/local/node"
PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:$NODE/bin:$NODE/lib/node_modules"
#PATH="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games"

And restart your Ubuntu.

On Node Github wiki, they use "root" permission, which I don't recommend do this way.
But if you want to, follow this :
https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installation

Find great tutorial about Node.JS in http://howtonode.org/.

To uninstall previous NodeJS, you can go to source nodejs folder and do "make uninstall"

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