# using Homebrew

# Note: `brew install npm` has problems, as of 2010-12-30.
# hopefully it will eventually be good and happy.
# As of npm@0.2.13, however, this is an option

PREFIX=$(brew --prefix)

# take ownership
# this will also let homebrew work without using sudo
# please don't do this if you don't know what it does!
sudo mkdir -p $PREFIX/{share/man,bin,lib/node,include/node}
sudo chown -R $USER $PREFIX/{share/man,bin,lib/node,include/node}

brew install node

# add prefix/lib/node to your NODE_PATH, because it won't
# be picked up by default in a brew install of node.
if ! [ "x$NODE_PATH" = "x" ]; then
  NODE_PATH="${NODE_PATH}:"
fi
echo 'export NODE_PATH=$NODE_PATH'$PREFIX'/lib/node' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc

# now install npm
curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh