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Tj Holowaychuk 43923a77fa examples
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n

My own flavour of node binary management, no subshells, no profile setup, no convoluted api, just simple.

Installation

$ npm install n

or

$ make install

Examples

Install a few nodes:

$ n 0.2.6
$ n 0.3.3

List installed nodes:

$ n

  0.2.5
* 0.2.6
  0.3.3

Usage

Output from n --help:

 Usage: n [options] <version>

 Commands:

   n               Output versions installed
   n <version>     Install and/or use node <version>

 Options:

   -V, --version   Output current version of n
   -h, --help      Display help information

Details

n by default installs node to /usr/local/n/versions, from which it can see what you have currently installed, and activate previously installed versions of node when n <version> is invoked again.

Activated nodes are then installed to the prefix /usr/local, which of course may be altered via the PREFIX environment variable.

To alter where n operates simply export N_PREFIX to whatever you prefer.

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2010 TJ Holowaychuk <tj@vision-media.ca>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the 'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED 'AS IS', WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.