Here are the steps to install node, npm and express on Amazon 32 bit Linux AMI

Installing Node on AWS Linux AMI

Here are the steps to install node, npm and express on Amazon 32 bit Linux AMI:

sudo yum install gcc-c++
sudo yum install openssl-devel
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.2.tar.gz (Pick the stable version available)
tar -zxvf node-v0.4.2.tar.gz
cd node-v0.4.2
export JOBS=2
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo su
vi /etc/sudoers (We add node to the path of the sudo)
Find and edit the line “Defaults secure_path …” and add “:/usr/local/bin” to the end of the path
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh
sudo npm install express

"curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh" -- should be

curl -L http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh

in order to follow the redirect. Users may get a "301 Permanently moved" error otherwise.

don't pipe curl to shell

npm is included in the node distrib, so you can safely just jump to the sudo npm install express command ignoring the curl one.

btw -- they've changed their URL pattern since this was written

wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.10.1.tar.gz => wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.1/node-v0.10.1.tar.gz

This script might serve you better –

!/bin/bash

cd
sudo yum -y install gcc-c++ make openssl-devel git
git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
git checkout v0.10.26
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install

The easiest way of installing node on Amazon Linux would be

sudo yum install nodejs npm --enablerepo=epel

I'm looking for node 4... and i heard that --enablerepo=epel-testing would work, but alas it does not. Might there be another repo to try for version 4?

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