Git, OpenSSL, Node.js and npm on Slicehost and Ubuntu 10.04 September 21, 2011
Copy and paste the following into your terminal:
sudo su apt-get install -y gcc g++ git-core libssl-dev curl -lO https://raw.github.com/isaacs/nave/master/nave.sh chmod +x nave.sh ./nave.sh usemain 0.4.11 curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
After you authenticate with your password, go get a cup of your beverage of choice, this is going to take a while :-)