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This one was a little hard. I got lots of help so I decided to post it online since it doesn’t exist on the internet yet… I wonder why….

The simple step by step instruction:

1. sudo yum install git
2. 
   

   git clone --depth 1 git://github.com/joyent/node.git
   

3. cd node
4. git checkout v0.6.2
5. sudo yum install openssl-devel
6. sudo yum install gcc # you can skip this if you already have gcc
7. sudo yum install gcc-c++ # you can skip this if you already have gcc-c++
8. ./configure       [ thank you Ed for the heads up! ]
9. make -j2
10. make install
11. export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local #this is to add usr local to your path wher nodejs was installed
12. sudo visudo
13. Find Defaults secure_path=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
    go to the end “a” for append, type “:/usr/local/bin”, ESC, “:wq”
14. curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh |sudo sh #installing npm a very good too to install nodejs packages
15. sudo yum install mongodb #installing mongodb
16. #go to the dir where you wish to code and use npm!!
17. npm install mongodb
18. npm install mongoose
19. npm install express
20. npm install coffee-script
21. npm install stylus
22. npm install underscore
23. npm list
    /home/john/someproject
    ├── coffee-script@1.1.3
    ├─┬ express@2.5.1
    │ ├─┬ connect@1.8.0
    │ │ └── formidable@1.0.7
    │ ├── mime@1.2.4
    │ ├── mkdirp@0.0.7
    │ └── qs@0.3.2
    ├── mongodb@0.9.7-0
    ├─┬ mongoose@2.3.13
    │ ├── colors@0.5.1
    │ ├── hooks@0.1.9
    │ └── mongodb@0.9.6-23
    ├─┬ stylus@0.19.3
    │ ├── cssom@0.2.0
    │ ├── growl@1.1.0
    │ └── mkdirp@0.0.7
    └── underscore@1.2.2