NodeJS installation on Google Compute Engine

NodeJS installation on Google Compute Engine

# First create a Google Compute Engine (GCE) VM instance, then SSH into the VM.
# 1. update everything
sudo apt-get update

# 2. install these 4 things
sudo apt-get install python g++ make checkinstall

# 3. make a src directory and go into it
mkdir ~/src && cd $_

# 4. download and install nodeJS
wget -N http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
tar xzvf node-latest.tar.gz && cd node-v*

# 5. run configure
./configure

# 6. run checkinstall, change the node version if you need to.
# Remember to change the version to remove the "v", as in "v0.12.5" to "0.12.5"
# Or else Debian will fail to install due to poor parsing
sudo checkinstall