Install Node.js on Ubuntu

Question

I\'m trying install Node.js on Ubuntu 12.10, but the terminal shows me an error about lost packages. I tried with this:

sudo apt-get install python-software-         


        

Answer 1

You can also compile it from source like this

git clone git://github.com/ry/node.git
cd node
./configure
make
sudo make install

Find detailed instructions here http://howtonode.org/how-to-install-nodejs