{"action":"opened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joyent/node/issues/9143","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joyent/node/issues/9143/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joyent/node/issues/9143/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/joyent/node/issues/9143/events","html_url":"https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/9143","id":56655381,"number":9143,"title":"Add installation documentation.","user":{"login":"barrystaes","id":1420588,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1420588?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/barrystaes","html_url":"https://github.com/barrystaes","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/barrystaes/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/barrystaes/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/barrystaes/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/barrystaes/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/barrystaes/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/barrystaes/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/barrystaes/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/barrystaes/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/barrystaes/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":0,"created_at":"2015-02-05T10:57:28Z","updated_at":"2015-02-05T10:57:28Z","closed_at":null,"body":"As a new and experimenting Node.JS user, i have installed Node on various ways on various platforms. And sadly found out that its easy to install it wrong.. (wrong permissions, locally, via npm)\r\n\r\nPlease add documentation to the nodejs release (and/or website) that shows me what to do with the .tar.gz file after i downloaded it. So far, i think this is what is required on my Debian derived Linux distribution: (CrunchBang #!)\r\n\r\n```\r\n$ sudo apt-get update\r\n$ sudo apt-get install git-core curl build-essential openssl libssl-dev\r\n\r\n$ cd ~/downloads\r\n$ curl -L http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.36/node-v0.10.36.tar.gz\r\n$ tar xvfz node-v0.10.36.tar.gz\r\n\r\n$ cd /opt/node-v0.10.36\r\n$ ./configure\r\n$ make\r\n$ sudo make install\r\n```\r\n\r\nI understand that documentation might be out of the scope of"}}