This is just a short and sweet set of commands to install Nodejs and NPM on Fedora 17.
Versions
- Fedora Core 17
- node.js 0.8.9
The Guts(go bash go!)
sudo yum install openssl-devel.i686 gcc gcc-c++
sudo ./configure
sudo make -j2
sudo make install
su
cd /tmp
git clone https\://github.com/isaacs/npm.git
cd npm
make install
exit
Most of this was based on an older post I found here.