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    Installing NodeJS and NPM

Prereqs (Ubuntu)

sudo apt-get install

build-essential
libssl-dev
git-core

Prereqs (Mac)


XCode tools
openssl library, discoverable by NodeJS (I forget whether this gets installed with XCode tools)
git

NodeJS

wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.3.7.tar.gz
tar xzf node-v0.3.7.tar.gz
cd node-v0.3.7
./configure
make
sudo make install

NPM

sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local
git clone https://github.com/isaacs/npm.git
cd npm
make