Install coffee script compiler on CentOS

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You are going to install some things. Login in root or use sudo for most of the followings commands.

su -

First you need git.

yum install git

Then you'll need openssl-devel to compile node.

yum install openssl-devel

Download the lastest version of node, compile it and install it.

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.6.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf node-v0.6.2.tar.gz
./configure
make
make install

Install npm.

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

Finally install coffee script. (-g means globally)

npm install -g coffee-script

you can also try the EPEL repo,

yum install -y http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm;
yum -y install nodejs npm coffee-script --enablerepo=epel;