title: trouble installing the latest version of npm on arch linux
body: <p>The version of node on <code>pacman</code>, the pacage manager on Arch linux, is not the latest one- but for my programme I need the latest version. </p>
  
  <p>To solve this I tried to download the <a href="https://nodejs.org/en/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">source code</a>, downloading the tar ball and then unpacking it and trying to build it.</p>
  
  <p>But when I got inside of the folder, and then looked on <a href="https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/BUILDING.md" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the build instructions on github</a>, the commands to build, i.e. </p>
  
  <pre><code>$ ./configure
  $ make
  $ [sudo] make install
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>didn't work- so I cloned <a href="https://github.com/nodejs/node" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the github project</a>, and followed those instructions above- but all I got was this error: </p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/lgjjM.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/lgjjM.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>how can I install the latest version of node, i.e. node v 4.4.3+?</p>