Take the 2-minute tour ×  I've found numerous installation
instructions for Node.js but they all seem so complicated -- I'm
not a super sys admin but I can get around. I have yum on the
system, but I didn't find any node.js packages, and I'm not sure
how to compile code on the server or where to put it.
share|improve this question Thanks for the great answers
everyone. I do believe you can yum install both nodejs and npm
now! awesome –  qodeninja Aug 14 '12 at 20:56 ...with EPEL
(install instructions if you don't already have the repo:
rackspace.com/knowledge_center/article/…). –  geerlingguy Jan 2
at 4:23  14 Answers 14  up vote 98 down vote accepted su -  yum
install gcc-c++ openssl-devel cd /usr/local/src wget
http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz tar zxvf node-
latest.tar.gz (cd into extracted folder: ex "cd node-v0.10.3")
make install  Note that this requires Python 2.6+ to use
./configure above. You can modify the "configure" file to point
to python2.7 in line 1 if necessary.  To create an RPM packa