Easy script for installing Node.js! Tested on Amazon's Ubuntu Server AMI

node-install.sh

#!/bin/sh
# Author: Connor Grady (connorgrady.com)
# USAGE: sudo sh node-install.sh
 
version='v0.10.21' # check nodejs.org for this
 
echo 'INSTALLER: Welcome to the Node.js easy installer for Ubuntu. Going through first round of updates + installs...'
start_time=`date +%s`
sudo apt-get update -y
sudo apt-get install build-essential g++ curl apache2-utils git-core -y
echo 'INSTALLER: General installs complete, getting Node.js source...'
git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git node-src
cd node-src
git checkout $version
echo "INSTALLER: Building Node.js $version this will take a while... (about 15-30 minutes)"
./configure && make && sudo make install
echo 'INSTALLER: Build complete!'
echo 'INSTALLER: Cleaning up...'
cd ../
sudo rm -r node-src
clear
end_time=`date +%s`
echo 'INSTALLER: Completed Node.js install in' `expr $end_time - $start_time` 'seconds!'