Node-deb is a project mainly written in Shell, it's free.
tools to make node.js available on ubuntu repository
tools to make node.js available on ubuntu repository
To install it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jerome-etienne/neoip sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install nodejs
nodejs will be automatically updated when you do the usual apt-get upgrade $ node -v v0.1.103
to install dependancies sudo sh deps.sh