Installing node.js on Debian 6.0

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Wingblade picture Wingblade · May 7, 2012 · Viewed 36.4k times · Source

So well, I have a vserver with Debian 6.0.

Now I would like to install Node.js, but none of the tutorials on the web seem to work. I have tried all of the results google gives me when I enter "install node.js on linux" I mostly failed because I had no idea how to install the dependencies (I'm new to linux btw)

How to install node.js on a Debian system that was just setup (so no programs already installed on it and such)?

Answer

Richard Nienaber picture Richard Nienaber · Sep 1, 2012

If anyone else needs step-by-step instructions, I used the following steps from Install Node.js on Debian Squeeze and it installed with no problems:

  1. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install git-core curl build-essential openssl libssl-dev
  2. git clone https://github.com/nodejs/node.git
  3. cd node
  4. git checkout v5.0.0 (or the version you want to build)
  5. ./configure
  6. make
  7. sudo make install
  8. node -v
  9. npm -v

I didn't have to install any additional sources into apt to get it to build.

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