The following recipe was used to build a Log.io environment on a fresh Ubuntu 11.04 install, using node.js v0.4.12:

1. Install node.js dependencies

   sudo apt-get install g++ make git libssl-dev

2. Download, compile node.js source

   mkdir ~/downloads cd downloads wget "http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.4.12.tar.gz" tar -xzvf node-v0.4.12.tar.gz cd node-v0.4.12/ ./configure make sudo make install

3. Install NPM

   curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sudo sh

4. Install node.js packages

   sudo npm install -g socket.io socket.io-client connect underscore

5. Get Log.io source

   cd ~/downloads git clone git://github.com/NarrativeScience/Log.io.git

6. Install server and/or harvester

   cd Log.io/bin/ ./configure sudo ./install/server sudo ./install/harvester

7. Launch harvester

   sudo /etc/init.d/log.io-harvester start