title: Installing nodejs on Debian 6
body: <p>Lots of (old?) posts suggest that if one wants to install node.js on Debian 6 (in my case this is an Amazon EC2 t1.micro instance I am experimenting with), then one needs to compile your own given the fact that Debian packages significantly lag the frenzied pace of node.js development.</p>
  
  <p>The <a href="http://nodejs.org/">node.js website</a> lists v0.10.17 as the current stable release.   The current <a href="http://packages.debian.org/sid/nodejs">nodejs package information</a> nicely also lists the same (0.10.17~dfsg1-2) which sounds great right?  Don't have to do a make after all!</p>
  
  <p>Problem is that this request: </p>
  
  <pre><code>sudo apt-get install nodejs
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Produces these results: </p>
  
  <pre><code>Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree
  Reading state information... Done
  E: Unable to locate package nodejs
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So my question is this: am I seeing what it looks like when a package is PLANNED but not yet created, or is there maybe some apt-get issue going on here that my installation just doesn't see the nodejs package and therefore cannot install it?  Am I stuck with having to do a make? (which btw,  blew up on me when I tried it).</p>