Ubuntu Installation Nodejs

ubuntu12.04 64bit

Nodejs-v0.8.14.tar.gz

node. JS is a server-side programming framework based on Google V8+javascript. But node. JS is not a JS application, it should be said JS running platform. It uses event-driven, asynchronous programming, and is designed for network services.

node. JS performs well, according to founder Ryan Dahl, performance is an important factor for node. js, and choosing C + + and V8 instead of Ruby or other virtual machines is performance-based. node. JS is also very bold in its design, running in single-process, single-threaded mode, The event-driven mechanism is implemented by node. JS, which maintains an event loop queue efficiently through internal single threads, without multi-threading resource usage and context switching, meaning that node. js is doing everything with event-driven response to large-scale HTTP requests.

Installation steps:

First make sure the system is installed to python,gcc,g++, if not installed:

$ sudo apt-get install python

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential

$ sudo apt-get install gcc

$ sudo apt-get install g++

Download the latest source code package from Nodejs official website http://nodejs.org/: node-v0.8.14.tar.gz

Extract:

$ TAR-ZXF node-v0.8.14.tar.gz

$ CD node-v0.8.14

Default installation:

$./configure

$ make

$ sudo make install

Select directory mode to install:

$./configure–prefix=/usr/node

$ make-j 5 #5 =cpu of +1

$ sudo make install

At the end of the installation, you can check the installed version with the following command:

$ node–version

v0.8.14

Once the installation is successful, you can start doing some fun things with Nodejs.

There are good entry documents in this http://wenku.baidu.com/view/22a03f6d011ca300a6c39092.html link

Ubuntu Installation Nodejs