Installing Node

Official wiki

Installation Guide

Installing on Ubuntu/Linux

#prerequisites on ubuntu

sudo apt-get install git

sudo apt-get install libssl-dev

#download node and build

sudo git clone http://github.com/joyent/node.git

cd node

sudo git checkout v0.4.10

sudo ./configure

sudo make

sudo make install

#check if it worked
node -v

Install on Windows

Don't!

A Windows pre-built binary has been released but it is unstable. You can download it here: http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.5.4/node.exe

We would suggest running a Linux VM to play around with node.

NPM - Node Package Manager

Unix install

curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Or

sudo git clone http://github.com/isaacs/npm.git

cd npm

sudo make install

Did it work?

node -v

npm -v