Installing nodejs, npm, and all their pals on a Rackspace Ubuntu 11.10 Server

Node.js installation on Rackspace

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#  Installing nodejs, npm, and all their pals on a Rackspace Ubuntu Server
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# First get your tools together
apt-get update
apt-get install emacs
apt-get install git
apt-get install curl
apt-get install libssl-dev
apt-get install make

# Sometimes you have to get stuff so you can compile stuff
apt-get install gcc
apt-get install g++
apt-get install lib32z1-dev
apt-get install pkg-config

# Now install node and npm
cd /usr/local/src
curl http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.15/node-v0.8.15.tar.gz > nodejs
tar xvfz nodejs
cd node-v0.8.15
./configure
make
make install

# Get NPM and forever, install globally
npm install -g forever

I'd suggest the following changes:

use /usr/local/src instead of /usr/src

add 'make' to your list of installables.

What's the advantage of /local, out of curiosity? Also, how did you use make? ## Mike's phone

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On Mar 7, 2012, at 16:44, jnials ***@***.*** wrote: I'd suggest the following changes: use /usr/local/src instead of /usr/src add 'make' to your list of installables. --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/1606102

/usr/src is typically where kernel sources and stuff needed by the system goes. /usr/local/src is where you put stuff that you build yourself just for that box. Make is needed to do the build. On a fresh install it doesn't get picked up. Something else you did may have required it, but since I was doing it on a clean box, it wasn't there.

-Jon On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Mike McNeil reply@reply.github.com wrote:

What's the advantage of /local, out of curiosity? Also, how did you use make? ## Mike's phone On Mar 7, 2012, at 16:44, jnials ***@***.*** wrote: > I'd suggest the following changes: > > use /usr/local/src instead of /usr/src > > add 'make' to your list of installables. > --- > > Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: > https://gist.github.com/1606102 --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://gist.github.com/1606102

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-Jon

Made those changes, thanks! Sorry for the late response.

For RackSpace - Debian Just add

apt-get install python-setuptools

And Works Well.

Regards

@jrgcid Thanks!