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Justin Tallant September 16, 2012
Installing Node on CentOS
I’ve recently installed NodeJS on CentOS so I can make use of it on my web server. It took a decent amount of googling and I came across a couple good resources that I’ve decided to combine here in hopes to save someone else time. Some of this information is taken from other blog posts in which case I have linked to the source. You’ll need command line access and basic Unix skills.
Node requires Python 2.6+
python -V make sure that is a capital V
If you are less than 2.6 then you need to install a newer version of Python but don’t worry it’s easy.
First off you need to recognize yum’s dependency on Python 2.4. Simply replacing this will break your passing semblance of a package manager. We will be using this later so not breaking is the preferred path. Python versions can live in relative harmony together. Download the Python source and untar it to some directory. I use /opt or ~/source for all of my non-native additions. You can choose whatever you want.
– Joshua Kehn
cd /opt
wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.3/Python-2.7.3.tgz
tar -xf Python-2.7.3.tgz
cd Python-2.7.3
yum install gcc
./configure
make
make altinstall
The altinstall part is key, as it will resist installing the binary to the default /usr/bin/python path, overriding the needed 2.4 version of Python. On my CentOS installation it put it in /usr/local/bin/python2.7. Now you have a fully functional installation of Python residing happily on your system. It should be accessible by using python2.7 wherever you use python.
– Joshua Kehn
Now to install Node
wget http://nodejs.tchol.org/repocfg/el/nodejs-stable-release.noarch.rpm
yum localinstall –nogpgcheck nodejs-stable-release.noarch.rpm
yum install nodejs-compat-symlinks npm
rm nodejs-stable-release.noarch.rpm
If the following two commands work then you are good to go.
node –version
npm –version
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