Recent releases have been pre-built using cross-compilers and this script and are downloadable below.
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isaacs
/ node-and-npm-in-30-seconds.sh
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October 27, 2025 08:27
Use one of these techniques to install node and npm without having to sudo. Discussed in more detail at http://joyeur.com/2010/12/10/installing-node-and-npm/ Note: npm >=0.3 is *safer* when using sudo.
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| echo 'export PATH=$HOME/local/bin:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc | |
| . ~/.bashrc | |
| mkdir ~/local | |
| mkdir ~/node-latest-install | |
| cd ~/node-latest-install | |
| curl http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1 | |
| ./configure --prefix=~/local | |
| make install # ok, fine, this step probably takes more than 30 seconds... | |
| curl https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh | sh |
stolsma
/ 1 Instructions for compiling node0.8.8 with hardfloat.md
Created
August 9, 2012 07:01
— forked from JerrySievert/gist:3119325
Working Node.js on Raspberry Pi
These instructions work for the Raspberry Pi running Raspbian (hard float) and create a hardware optimized version of NodeJS for the Raspberry PI, (and include a working install and NPM!!!):
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Install Raspbian - http://www.raspberrypi.org/downloads
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Install the necessary dependecies:
sudo apt-get install git-core build-essential(If you just installed git then you need to administer your git identity first, else adding the patches below will fail!!!)
Locate the section for your github remote in the .git/config file. It looks like this:
[remote "origin"]
fetch = +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
url = [email protected]:joyent/node.git
Now add the line fetch = +refs/pull/*/head:refs/remotes/origin/pr/* to this section. Obviously, change the github url to match your project's URL. It ends up looking like this: