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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!

# Lucky 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.

∞
Date: January 21, 2012
Category: /etc/
Tags: #node.js #npm #sysadmin

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43 Responses

Joel
February 18th, 2012 @ 12:42 am

Thanks, this worked perfectly.
Yoyo
February 18th, 2012 @ 7:45 am

Worked fine for my debian, thanks ;]
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.
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
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!
clayzermk1
April 12th, 2012 @ 11:20 am

Thanks, I’m up and running.
Jd Daniel
May 14th, 2012 @ 4:40 pm

Install instructions work great on Ubuntu 11.10 as well.
Cheers.
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June 21st, 2012 @ 1:53 am

Great how-to, thanks! I’m running the make test now. Fingers crossed :-)
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October 16th, 2012 @ 11:20 am

You missed a sudo after && in
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Not a biggie, but might be worth changing so the recipe is fool proof for beginners.
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December 22nd, 2012 @ 2:10 pm

If you’re having trouble compiling on arm, a site to checkout is http://www.yoovant.com/how-install-node-js-0-8-arm-based-sbc-fox-board-g20/. It helped me a lot.
bennidi
February 14th, 2013 @ 6:58 am

Nice work. Got it running without any problems. Thanks man.
Mark
March 4th, 2013 @ 9:13 pm

In case someone finds this useful, I’ve created a small project to help you build your own node.js Debian packages:
https://github.com/mark-webster/node-debian
bstephens
March 28th, 2013 @ 11:12 am

Wow! Worked perfectly. Thanks for posting this!
Rebnev
April 5th, 2013 @ 5:22 pm

Hello! I’m trying to install nodejs.
And after make I take this errors.
I’m newbie in linux, but I guess error in openssl..how to fix it? thx!

make[1]: execvp: printf: Argument list too long
make[1]: *** [/root/node/out/Release/obj.target/deps/openssl/libopenssl.a] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/node/out’
make: *** [node] Error 2
jason
May 6th, 2013 @ 1:37 pm

Sounds like you need to install openssl: sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install openssl
lonyi
May 6th, 2013 @ 11:06 pm

yes,I love you !
爱死你了，终于找到一篇正儿八经可以用的教程了！
Julian Romera Juarez
May 26th, 2013 @ 11:35 pm

Wow, great, thanks! worked like a charm!
juan
May 31st, 2013 @ 12:13 am

hi … i have a problem when a try to install node.js
i look this
git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
cloning…
username node :
password:
and i dont know

sorry for my english
Krisu
July 12th, 2013 @ 11:12 am

Debian Squeeze. Node installed. Works fine. Thanks bye.
Andrii
July 18th, 2013 @ 1:37 am

I get this error when doing “make”:

make[1]: execvp: printf: Argument list too long
make[1]: *** [/root/nodetest/node/out/Release/obj.target/deps/openssl/libopenssl.a] Error 127
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/nodetest/node/out’
make: *** [node] Error 2

Don’t know what’s happening here.
Andrii
July 18th, 2013 @ 1:52 am

But it still installed with “sudo make install” and both node and npm seem to work fine. I wonder if I’ll find any problems with it later.
Souley
July 27th, 2013 @ 6:28 am

Thanks so much works like a charm!
William
September 19th, 2013 @ 9:38 am

The best explanation about this! thanks a lot
Aaron
October 7th, 2013 @ 2:33 pm

Hey, It bloody worked on Deb7—Wheeeezy!
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Tsumiki
March 19th, 2014 @ 4:52 am

Thank’s a lot! all work perfectly. Nice work
lamoon
May 14th, 2014 @ 11:57 pm

Thank you, it’s work for me on debian 6
Esolitos
June 10th, 2014 @ 5:23 pm

Thanks, i used the branch v0.11.0-release and it worked without any issue.
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October 11th, 2014 @ 9:17 am

I must install python for it runs…
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Thomas Daly
October 15th, 2014 @ 9:35 am

Please could you explain what you mean by ‘isolate node’? Thank you!
Aniket Lawande
November 21st, 2014 @ 12:24 am

Thanks man !!
I had some nodejs transform scripts I needed to run on Deb 6 virtual machines. Worked like a charm !!!
AOlszak
January 31st, 2015 @ 8:15 pm

Thx man!
Stewart Dinnage
February 10th, 2015 @ 4:46 am

I’m having an issue at the make step.
project not configured (run ‘waf configure’ first)
any ideas? will be appreciated greatly.
Ingmar
March 4th, 2015 @ 6:31 am

Tnx!
ololoshka
January 22nd, 2016 @ 4:33 am

Great!

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