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copied!<p><strong>As for October 2014:</strong></p> <p>Node.js is available from the NodeSource Debian and Ubuntu binary distributions <a href="https://github.com/nodesource/distributions" rel="nofollow noreferrer">repository</a>.</p> <pre><code>curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup | sudo bash - sudo apt-get install -y nodejs </code></pre> <p>That's it.</p> <p><strong>Outdated answer:</strong></p> <p>The fastest way without using sudo is like described <a href="http://howtonode.org/introduction-to-npm" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here by isaac</a></p> <blockquote> <p>I strongly encourage you not to do package management with sudo! Packages can run arbitrary scripts, which makes sudoing a package manager command as safe as a chainsaw haircut. Sure, it's fast and definitely going to cut through any obstacles, but you might actually want that obstacle to stay there.</p> <p>I recommend doing this once instead:</p> </blockquote> <pre><code>sudo chown -R $USER /usr/local </code></pre> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong></p> <p>There are certain security concerns and functionality limitations regarding changing the ownership of /usr/local to the current user:</p> <ul> <li>if there is another user on the machine who could use global npm packages - do not change the ownership of /usr/local</li> <li><a href="https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/1393/are-my-permissions-for-usr-local-correct">https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/1393/are-my-permissions-for-usr-local-correct</a></li> <li><a href="https://askubuntu.com/questions/261326/is-it-safe-to-chown-usr-local">https://askubuntu.com/questions/261326/is-it-safe-to-chown-usr-local</a></li> </ul> <p>Having said that, if you want to install global module without using sudo, I don't see any better solution (from pragmatic point of view) than mentioned. Security vs easy of use is very broad topic, and there is no easy answer for that - it just depends on your requirements.</p>

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