Install node.js on Ubuntu 10.10

gistfile1.sh

# As of 10/07/2011, this bash script installs Node.js
# and npm (a node package manager) on Ubuntu 10.10 or 10.04 x64.
# This installs node in your home directory (~/.local/programs)
#
# by okor
#
# Copy, Paste and Run in a terminal:

echo "Install required packages" && \
  sudo apt-get update && \
  sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential openssl libssl-dev && \

echo "Install node" && \
  mkdir -p ~/.local/programs && \
  git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git && \
  cd node && \
  ./configure --prefix=~/.local/programs && \
  make install && \

echo 'export PATH=$HOME/.local/programs/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc && \
source ~/.bashrc && \

echo "Install npm" && \
  cd && \
  git clone git://github.com/isaacs/npm.git && \
  cd npm && \
  make install # or `make link` for bleeding edge && \
  cd && \

# Make sure is succeeded:
  echo "node:" `node -v`
  echo "npm:" `npm -v`
  echo "All Done"

Great script, but fails on 2 points:

• Node's repository is now at git://github.com/joyent/node.git
• Seems like this line export PATH=$HOME/.local/programs/bin:$PATH needs to be run by itself in order to allow npm to install.

I think that may fix it.

Cool! Will try it out in a few days.