Yes, I have taken the plunge. I have started learning about Node.js. This should be a pretty common set of commands on the Linux platform by now. If you’re going to be a developer on the Linux platform, you should really be used to the ./configure, make, make install instructions.

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$ cd Downloads
$ wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.6.19/node-v0.6.19.tar.gz
$ tar -xvzf node-v0.6.19.tar.gz
$ cd node-v0.6.19
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

If all went well, you should be able to verify that everything worked exactly as expected.

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$ node --version
v0.6.19

Now, time to start learning some node!