su -
yum install gcc-c++ openssl-devel
cd /usr/local/src
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz or the version you need
tar zxvf node-latest.tar.gz
(cd into extracted folder: ex "cd node-v0.10.3")
./configure
make
make install
Note that this requires Python 2.6+ to use ./configure above. You can modify the "configure" file to point to python2.7 in line 1 if necessary.
To create an RPM package, you can use FPM:
# wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
# tar zxvf node-latest.tar.gz
(cd into extracted folder: ex "cd node-v0.10.3")
# ./configure --prefix=/usr/
# make
# mkdir /tmp/nodejs
# make install DESTDIR=/tmp/nodejs/
# tree -L 3 /tmp/nodejs/
/tmp/nodejs/
└── usr
├── bin
│ ├── node
│ ├── node-waf
│ └── npm -> ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js
├── include
│ └── node
├── lib
│ ├── dtrace
│ ├── node
│ └── node_modules
└── share
└── man
Now make the nodejs package:
# fpm -s dir -t rpm -n nodejs -v 0.8.18 -C /tmp/nodejs/ usr/bin usr/lib
Then install and check the version:
# rpm -ivh nodejs-0.8.18-1.x86_64.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:nodejs ########################################### [100%]
# /usr/bin/node --version
v0.8.18
