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.