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
- git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
- cd node
- git checkout "v0.5.0"
- export JOBS=2 # optional, sets number of parallel commands.
- ./configure
- make
- make install
Latest NPM
- curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
CoffeeScript 1.0.1
- npm config set registry http://registry.npmjs.org
- npm install -g coffee-script@1.0.1