On: Node.js 0.4.5 Released w/ many bug fixes

[selectnull]

I use ppa:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jerome-etienne/neoip

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install nodejs

I got 0.4.5 this morning from the usual upgrade, before I even saw the news.

[ashchristopher → selectnull]

On 64-bit Ubuntu you will only get 0.2.6

Reading package lists... Done

Building dependency tree

Reading state information... Done

The following NEW packages will be installed:

  nodejs

0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.

Need to get 0B/1,834kB of archives.

After this operation, 5,349kB of additional disk space will be used.

Selecting previously deselected package nodejs. (Reading database ... 57171 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking nodejs (from .../nodejs_0.2.6~lucid1~ppa201101061407_amd64.deb) ...

Setting up nodejs (0.2.6~lucid1~ppa201101061407) ...

[dualogy → selectnull]

Awesome, I like your approach even better than mine (below). Switched to this but will keep my script for my future users in case they're NodeJS noobs...