Nov 20, 2011 1 min read

Installing node.js 0.6.2 on Fedora 16

This one was a little hard. I got lots of help so I decided to post it online since it doesn’t exist on the internet yet… I wonder why….

The simple step by step instruction:

sudo yum install git
git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
git checkout v0.6.2
sudo yum install openssl-devel
sudo yum install gcc # you can skip this if you already have gcc
sudo yum install gcc-c++ # you can skip this if you already have gcc-c++
./configure [ thank you Ed for the heads up! ]
make -j2
make install
export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local #this is to add usr local to your path wher nodejs was installed
sudo visudo
Find Defaults secure_path=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
go to the end “a” for append, type “:/usr/local/bin”, ESC, “:wq”
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh |sudo sh #installing npm a very good too to install nodejs packages
P.S. : This step is outdated as of node.js 0.6.3 since node.js 0.6.3 comes out with npm
sudo yum install mongodb #installing mongodb
go to the dir where you wish to code and use npm!!
npm install mongodb
npm install mongoose
npm install express
npm install coffee-script
npm install stylus
npm install underscore
npm list
/home/john/someproject
├── coffee-script@1.1.3
├─┬ express@2.5.1
│ ├─┬ connect@1.8.0
│ │ └── formidable@1.0.7
│ ├── mime@1.2.4
│ ├── mkdirp@0.0.7
│ └── qs@0.3.2
├── mongodb@0.9.7-0
├─┬ mongoose@2.3.13
│ ├── colors@0.5.1
│ ├── hooks@0.1.9
│ └── mongodb@0.9.6-23
├─┬ stylus@0.19.3
│ ├── cssom@0.2.0
│ ├── growl@1.1.0
│ └── mkdirp@0.0.7
└── underscore@1.2.2

go to the dir where you wish to code and use npm!!