Installing Dependencies

Here are instructions for installing dependencies from source.

Node.js

Get the source code:

git clone git://github.com/joyent/node

In the source tree, run:

./configure --prefix=/local-install && make && make install

Replace the argument to --prefix= with your desired installation path.

Add local-install to the PATH environment variable:

export PATH="$PATH:/local-install"

Bower

/local-install/bin/npm install -g bower

Ruby

Get source code:

git clone git://github.com/ruby/ruby

Compile a bootstrapping Ruby

In the Ruby source tree, switch to the appropriate release: [TODO]

Build:

autoreconf -f -i -v && \
    ./configure --prefix=/local-install/ruby-bootstrap && \
    make && \
    make install;