Help is broken in the bundled npm, so they're going to be shipping 0.6.4 soon: http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs/browse_thread/thread/d...

You might want to stick with the separate npm for now if you find yourself using "npm help" a lot.

What's the state of the art in Debian/Ubuntu packages for Node? Is anyone maintaining some anywhere?

Debian (unstable) - 4.12-1

http://packages.debian.org/sid/nodejs

Ubuntu (11.10) - 0.4.9-1ubuntu3

http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/nodejs

Mint - none

Fedora - none

Arch - 0.6.2-1

http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/nodejs/

Gentoo (unstable) - 0.6.2

http://packages.gentoo.org/package/net-libs/nodejs

OpenSuSE - ??? (couldn't find package database)

FreeBSD - 0.4.12

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/www/node/

I maintain a third-party node repo for Fedora: http://nodejs.tchol.org/

I tried to get it into Fedora proper, but node currently bundles their own slightly modified libev and c-ares, which is against Fedora's packaging policies.

Arch already has 0.6.3: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/nodejs/

There is a Ubuntu PPA that tracks Node.js releases pretty closely.

Checked, still at 0.6.2: https://launchpad.net/~chris-lea/+archive/node.js

0.4.12 in Debian unstable.

The npm package has been outdated at 0.2.19 for ages, so this merge will hopefully bring back a usable npm.

I believe the default version is 0.4.9. This is the output from node -v command on 11.10

does anyone know if npm is included with the windows install? This is very exciting.

yes, it is included :)

OK Brilliant. Im going to try this right now - Thanks! ;-)