Download sourcecode
Choose the appropriate sourcecode version by going to http://nodejs.org/#download.
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.7/node-v0.6.7.tar.gz # or use curl |
Install g++
I found that the g++ is needed to install node.js from sourcecode. Found a hint about installing g++ on Amazon Linux, which basically tells you to do this:
sudo yum install gcc-c++.x86_64 |
Install openssl
To get ssl support, you need to install openssl-devel.x86_64 which is not installed by default (only binary version). Alternately you can install without ssl support with ./configure --without-ssl. (thanks to my colleague Elias Löfgren for helping out here)
sudo yum install openssl-devel.x86_64 |
Install make
(thanks Daniel for pointing this out)
sudo yum install -y make.x86_64
Install Node.js
Now you can configure, make, install:
./configure make make install |
Thank you. Concise post!
One more thing.
I repeated your commands, and found one missing : make.
> yum install -y make.x86_64
I must have installed that on a previous run on the instance. Thanks.