Question

Is there a way to install node.js and npm in an unattended way (with a shell script) without building it from source? I have an array of servers that scales automatically based on server load, but downloading the Node.js source and building it using make takes like 10 minutes.

Thanks!

edit: I tried copying over the binaries, but that resulted in an error that the binary was corrupted. And yes, they are all EC2 m1.small instances.

Answer 1

Assuming your script is something like:

git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
cd node
./configure
make

Can you not just use the results from here on each new instance, and continue with:

sudo make install
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh