nodeup: a tiny script that installs the desired version of node on any Ubuntu Linux server. Builds from source but does it quickly with 4 cores. Also installs forever

nodeup.sh

#!/bin/sh

# On the specified host, install the specified version of node

if [ -z "$1" ]
  then
    echo "First argument must be somehost.com, second argument must be desired node version"
    exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$2" ]
  then
    echo "Specify node version in this format: 0.10.18"
    exit 1
fi

SERVER="$1"
VERSION="$2"

ssh "root@$SERVER" <<EOM
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.18/node-v0.10.18.tar.gz &&
tar -zxf node-v0.10.18.tar.gz && cd node-v0.10.18 &&
./configure --prefix=/usr &&
make -j 4 &&
./node --version &&
apt-get -y remove nodejs &&
make install &&
npm install -g forever &&
cd /tmp &&
node --version &&
echo Done
EOM