Installing node.js on Debian 6.0

If anyone else needs step-by-step instructions, I used the following steps from Install Node.js on Debian Squeeze and it installed with no problems:

1. sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install git-core curl build-essential openssl libssl-dev
2. git clone https://github.com/nodejs/node.git
3. cd node
4. git checkout v5.0.0 (or the version you want to build)
5. ./configure
6. make
7. sudo make install
8. node -v
9. npm -v

I didn’t have to install any additional sources into apt to get it to build.