nodejs-install-update.sh

#!/bin/sh

# Usage:
# curl https://raw.github.com/gist/3791075 | sh -s 0.8.10

# This script will simply install/update node.js to the version you specify.
# It will be installed/updated to $HOME/local/node

NODEJS=v$1

cd /tmp
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/$NODEJS/node-$NODEJS.tar.gz
tar -xzvf node-$NODEJS.tar.gz
cd node-$NODEJS
make clean
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local/node
make
make install

# install/update npm
curl -k https://npmjs.org/install.sh | clean=yes sh



# Put the below in your ~/.bash_profile

# function update-node {
#  version=$1
#  curl https://raw.github.com/gist/3791075 | sh -s $version
# }

# Now you can simply run update-node 0.8.10 !

# Oh and btw, it will install node to ~/local/node directory.