How to: install Hubot on Debian Squeeze

install.sh

# 1. Install nodejs and npm:

sudo apt-get update && apt-get install git-core curl build-essential openssl libssl-dev python

git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
 
# 'git tag' shows all available versions: select the latest stable.
git checkout v0.9.3
 
# Configure seems not to find libssl by default so we give it an explicit pointer.
# Optionally: you can isolate node by adding --prefix=/opt/node
./configure --openssl-libpath=/usr/lib/ssl
make
make test
sudo make install
node -v # it's alive!
 
# Luck us: NPM is packaged with Node.js source so this is now installed too
# curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh
npm -v # it's alive!


# 2. Install coffee-script
npm install -g coffee-script

# 3. Install Hubot dependencies
apt-get install build-essential libssl-dev git-core redis-server libexpat1-dev

# 4. Install Hubot
cd /opt
git clone git://github.com/github/hubot.git && cd hubot
npm install

export PATH="node_modules/.bin:$PATH"

# 5. Try hubot
cd /opt/hubot
bin/hubot

> hubot ping
> PONG

# 6. Create new bot
cd /opt/hubot
bin/hubot -c wanda-bot

# 7. Configure the bot to use XMPP
# Edit bot-directory/package.json:

"dependencies": {
    "hubot": "2.3.2",
    "hubot-scripts": ">= 2.1.0",
    "optparse": "1.0.3",
    "node-xmpp": "0.3.2",
    "hubot-xmpp": "0.1.0",
    "htmlparser": "1.7.6",
    "soupselect": "0.2.0",
    "underscore": "1.3.3",
    "underscore.string": "2.2.0rc"
  }

cd bot-directory
npm --nodedir=/root/downloads/node install  # --nodedir required for "pre" node versions