My Pogoplug is running Debian Wheezy with a custom 3.14 Kernel (see other posts in this blog for install instructions).
Installing NodeJS
NodeJS is now part of the wheezy-backports repository, so this installation is pretty straightforward.
1. edit /etc/apt/sources.list, add the following line:
deb http://http.debian.net/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-free
2. Install the package
apt-get install nodejs
3. check version:
nodejs -v
NOTE: the debian binary is called "nodejs" and not "node" because of a naming conflict with an existing package called "node" (HAM radio related).
This can lead to issues down the road (e.g with the npm install)
One work-around is to create a symbolic link:
as root:
ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/local/bin/node
as non-root :
ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs ~/bin/node
Installing NPM
Unfortunately, npm is not backported to wheezy, so we build from scratch.
Some more info: Install Node.js & NPM on Debian Wheezy
1. make sure SSL certificates are installed
apt-get install ca-certificates
2. get the npm install shell script
cd /tmp
wget https://www.npmjs.org/install.sh --no-check-certificates
(NOTE: I had to add the --no-check-certificates option even though I had the latest ca-certificates installed)
3. edit the install.sh script (if necessary)
I had to add the -k parameter to all the instances where "curl" was called to bypass the certificate checking.
4. run the NPM install script
sh install.sh
You should get a message like "It worked".
5. verify version
npm -v
