node/npm 0.4.7 on ubuntu 8 server

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# ubuntu updates and installs
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get upgrade --yes;
sudo apt-get install --yes curl;
sudo apt-get install --yes build-essential;
sudo apt-get install --yes libssl-dev; sudo apt-get install --yes pkg-config;
sudo apt-get install --yes git-core git;


# important! run as super user.
sudo su
# bz2 header needed for python compile
apt-get install libbz2-dev
wget http://python.org/ftp/python/2.7/Python-2.7.tgz
tar xzf Python-2.7.tgz
cd Python-2.7
./configure
make
sudo make install


# why 0.4.7? heroku uses it.
mkdir ~/local;
cd ~/local;

# wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.7.0/node-v0.7.0.tar.gz
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.7.tar.gz
tar -zxvf node-v0.4.7.tar.gz;
cd node-v0.4.7;
# ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/node;
./configure;
make;
sudo make install;


curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh