Installing a Specific Version of NodeJS, NPM and CoffeeScript

Back | npm, nodejs, coffeescript, linux | 8/31/2011 |

The latest version of Node was segfaulting on my Linode. Here’s how to install a specific version.

I want Node 0.5.0, the latest NPM and CoffeeScript 1.0.1.

NodeJS 0.5.0 From a Tag

  1. git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
  2. cd node
  3. git checkout "v0.5.0"
  4. export JOBS=2 # optional, sets number of parallel commands.
  5. ./configure
  6. make
  7. make install

Latest NPM

  1. curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

CoffeeScript 1.0.1

  1. npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org
  2. npm install -g coffee-script@1.0.1