What was the first thing I did with my Raspberry Pi?

Try to install Node.JS of course!

It's a little frustrating - the dependencies of the v8 engine are an obstacle course... ARMv4 architecture in Debian Squeeze is the problem.

The good news... the path has already been trod!

@elsmorian gives a quick tip on how to modify your configuration to support ARMv5+ architecture.

UPDATE: @richard_ive saw my post and sent me off to Stackoverflow... to a much better solution. Thanks Rich!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11038579/cross-compiling-node-js-for-...

UPDATE: @TooTallNate has blessed us with first-class access to v0.8.10 'out of the box.'

http://n8.io/cross-compiling-nodejs-v0.8/