Install Node.js on Fedora 17

The easiest way to install Node.js on Fedora these days (as far as I can tell) is using creationix’s NVM (Node Version Manager) script.

You can grab it by cloning it from his github site.

1. Install git and perl-Digest-SHA if you don’t have them already:

   sudo yum install git perl-Digest-SHA -y

   If you are missing perl-Digest-SHA you’ll get a checksums don't match error when you attempt to install.
2. Clone the nvm repository:

   git clone git://github.com/creationix/nvm.git ~/nvm

3. Once you’ve cloned it, execute the following to add a line to your ~/.bashrcenvironment file (this assumes that you checked out nvm in your home directory, so as~/nvm):

   echo "source ~/nvm/nvm.sh" >> ~/.bashrc

4. Now to load that environment, run:

   source ~/.bashrc

Now you have nvm installed, and can use it to install and manage node versions.

To install the latest (at the time of writing) node.js version:

nvm install 0.8.18

And to set it as the default:

nvm alias default 0.8.18

Enjoy.