Easier Way of Setting up Cloud9 on Ubuntu 10.10 32-bit desktop w/ nvm

EDIT: Thanks to William Rayner, it seems the current npm module can be used with the latest stable node. It’s those pesky o3 tools causing problems again. Anyway, check out v3 below for a non-version dependant install script for cloud9.

Ok, lets try this again. Last time around I spent a lot of time fumbling in the dark, hitting various errors and generally using a sledgehammer approach to getting the Cloud9-ide app running. Hopefully this time around it’ll be more like a Pozidriv.

Now I think the following script should install the latest versions of node, npm and cloud9. Hopefully, if someone stumbles upon this post in the future they’ll be able to follow this regardless of what the current versions and dependencies are.

v1) *Unstable* – node stable, npm stable, cloud9 0.2.0 w/ o3 binaries

sudo apt-get install -y git-core libssl-dev curl

git clone git://github.com/creationix/nvm.git ~/.nvm

. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh

nvm sync

nvm install stable

nvm use stable

npm install cloud9

cloud9

Note: I stumbled upon the fact that once you install cloud9, that you can launch it just by calling cloud9 (instead of “user@machine> node /path/to/cloud9.js”). Not sure if this is a standard npm thing or specific to cloud9, nice to know regardless.

This all seems a little too good to be true. Unfortunately, for now, it is. It seems the current combination of the latest node and the cloud9 module are incongruous, so you’ll just have to follow my previous guide for now ;)

 

… or a combination of the two. Use this if you want the most up-to-date cloud9

v2) *Stable*, node stable, npm stable, cloud9 devel branch, compiled o3 tools

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install -y build-essential g++ curl libssl-dev apache2-utils git libxml2-dev

git clone git://github.com/creationix/nvm.git ~/.nvm

. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh

nvm sync

nvm install stable

nvm use stable 

git clone git://github.com/ajaxorg/cloud9.git

cd cloud9

git checkout devel

git submodule update --init --recursive

bin/cloud9.sh

cd ..

git clone http://github.com/ajaxorg/o3

cd o3

./tools/node_modules_build

cp build/default/o3.node ../cloud9/support/jsdav/support/node-o3-xml-v4/lib/o3-xml/

cd .. 

node ~/cloud9/bin/cloud9.js -w ~/yourproject

 

v3) *Stable*, node stable, npm stable, cloud9 0.2.0, compiled o3 tools

sudo apt-get install -y git-core libssl-dev curl libxml2-dev

git clone git://github.com/creationix/nvm.git ~/.nvm

. ~/.nvm/nvm.sh

nvm sync

nvm install stable

nvm use stable

npm install cloud9

git clone https://github.com/ajaxorg/o3.git

cd o3 

./tools/node_modules_build

sudo cp build/default/o3.node ~/.nvm/`node -v`/lib/node/clo9/support/jsdav/support/node-o3-xml/lib/o3-xml/

cloud9

Again, good luck!