Installing node.js on ubuntu

Installing node.js on ubutnu

1. https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Installation
2. step 3a ) Installing on Unix (including BSD and Mac)
3. sudo apt-get install git
4. git clone git://github.com/joyent/node.git
5. to install particular version we want the stable one.
6. cd node
   git checkout v0.4.11 # optional.  Note that master is unstable.
   export JOBS=2 # optional, sets number of parallel commands.
   mkdir ~/local
7. neccessary for configure
8. sudo aptitude install build-essential
9. sudo apt-get install libssl-dev
10. ./configure –prefix=$HOME/local/node
    make
    make install
    echo ‘export PATH=$HOME/local/node/bin:$PATH’ >> ~/.profile
    echo ‘export NODE_PATH=$HOME/local/node:$HOME/local/node/lib/node_modules’ >> ~/.profile
    source ~/.profile