The following recipe was used to build a Log.io environment on a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 install (ami-3d4ff254), using node.js v0.8.21

1. Install node.js dependencies

   sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install g++ make git libssl-dev pkg-config

2. Download, compile node.js source

   mkdir ~/downloads cd downloads wget "http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.8.21/node-v0.8.21.tar.gz" tar -xzvf node-v0.8.21.tar.gz cd node-v0.8.21/ ./configure make sudo make install

3. Install NPM

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

4. Install log.io

   sudo npm install -g log.io --user "ubuntu"

5. Launch server and/or harvester

   log.io-server

6. Configure, launch harvester

   nano ~/.log.io/harvester.conf log.io-harvester