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Install Node.js on Debian Squeeze
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Recently I began a few Node.js projects which I roll micro VM guests to sandbox my experiments on. Unfortunately there are not maintained APT packages for Node or NPM on Squeeze. I decided since most information out there for Node/NPM installation on Debian/Ubuntu is a bit dated I’d document the quick/easy steps I used for my machine image:

Install dependency packages

sudo apt-get update && apt-get install git-core curl build-essential openssl libssl-dev

Install Node.js & NPM

git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node

# 'git tag' shows all available versions: select the latest stable.
git checkout v0.6.8

# Configure seems not to find libssl by default so we give it an explicit pointer.
# Optionally: you can isolate node by adding --prefix=/opt/node
./configure --openssl-libpath=/usr/lib/ssl
make
make test
sudo make install
node -v # it's alive!

# Luck us: NPM is packaged with Node.js source so this is now installed too
# curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh
npm -v # it's alive!

That’s it; not rocket science but there are many install paths & given the rapid development cycle of Node it’s really best to be building from source at this point; hopefully this will save you a few cycles.

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Date: January 21, 2012
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6 Responses

  1. Joel

    February 18th, 2012 @ 12:42 am

    Thanks, this worked perfectly.

  2. Yoyo

    February 18th, 2012 @ 7:45 am

    Worked fine for my debian, thanks ;]

  3. Michael Watts

    March 16th, 2012 @ 6:07 pm

    I couldn’t get my Debian to install build-essential package – for some reason. I had updated, and upgraded but instead managed to get it working by running apt-get make, apt-get gcc g++ (I think) and apt-get dpkg (+ dpkg-dev). Just in case anybody else has similar prob, this seems to have worked so far.

    Many thanks for some great instructions.

  4. jason

    March 18th, 2012 @ 11:15 pm

    My pleasure! As for missing build-essential, this maybe due to some missing /etc/apt/sources.list perhaps; Debian’s a bit paranoid on the licensing of shipped packages – you can expand this by adding `contrib` & `non-free` to your sources.list, e.g:

    deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
    deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free

  5. dan

    April 4th, 2012 @ 11:20 am

    Thank you so much for this guide! At first, I followed some other guide, editing the /etc/apt/sources.list to include SID packages…
    I ended up resetting by server…
    Your guide worked out great and now I am happy with what I got!

    Thanks!

  6. clayzermk1

    April 12th, 2012 @ 11:20 am

    Thanks, I’m up and running.

 

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