Detailed steps for installing node. js in CentOS

Compile and install node. js

Wget http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.5/node-v0.8.5.tar.gz
Tar zvxf node-v0.8.5.tar.gz
Cd node-v0.8.5
./Configure
Make & make install

Modify the wget version by yourself.

Run the yum command to install

Yum install \
Http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm
For Enterprise Linux version 7 Beta: if your version is centos7.x, run the following command:

Yum install \
Http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/beta/7/x86_64/epel-release-7-0.2.noarch.rpm
Then install the nodejs and npm packages: After the above environment is installed, install nodejs and npm

Sudo yum install nodejs npm -- enablerepo = epel