Installing node on a Linux Debian server

$> sudo apt-get update && apt-get install git-core curl build-essential openssl libssl-dev
$> git clone https://github.com/joyent/node.git
$> cd node
$> git checkout v0.12.7 (or the latest release)
$> ./configure --openssl-libpath=/usr/lib/ssl
$> make (it might take a while)
$> make test
$> sudo make install

$> node -v # it's alive !
$> npm -v # it's also alive !