Installs node.js from source. Also installs missing libraries needed to run node.js. Update node version to latest stable release.

install-node.sh

#!/bin/sh

## Install pre-requisites
sudo apt-get install -y git-core build-essential openssl libssl-dev pkg-config

## Ensure python <3 is available
ret=`python -c 'import sys; print("%i" % (sys.hexversion<0x03000000))'`
if [ $ret -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "we require python version <3"
    mkdir /tmp/bin; ln -s /usr/bin/python2.7 /tmp/bin/python;
    export PATH = /tmp/bin:$PATH
else
    echo "python version is <3"
fi

mkdir ~/workspace
cd ~/workspace && git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node && git checkout v0.10.3 # check nodejs.org for latest stable release
./configure
make -j2 && sudo make install

# Print node version
node --version && npm --version