In the past, I’ve showed how to run a NodeJS application in Compute Engine. It’s a good case where you wish to test ideas with App Script but when you move them to ‘production’ – NodeJS is the answer. After the Google Developer Live show we had at the end of August, I got few questions on how to install NodeJS inside Compute Engine instance.
Here are the (easy) steps I did before the show in order to save us time:
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sudo apt-get install python g++ make checkinstall
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mkdir ~/src && cd $_ -
wget -N http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz -
tar xzvf node-latest.tar.gz && cd node-v* -
./configure -
checkinstall -
sudo dpkg -i node_*
The great benefit from running this installation process on your first instance is that after that, you can take a ‘Snapshot’ (you got up to 1,000!) and later use it on new instances.
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love your Monument Valley picture and want to use it as Chrome theme, but cannot get it to load as theme. I search for it in Chrome store. It comes up as either “rate it” or “added to Chrome”, but will not load as theme. I Have googled for instructions and spent hours trying to get it to load with absolutely no success… can you give me info as to how to make it a Chrome theme? Thank you..
If you mean this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/moab-the-mountain-bike-pa/aacknmjcgjhjgajciecklbdjfikhidlm
just go and click on the top-right button – ‘Free’.