Thanks again, I actually just figured it out right before your response. 
thanks for doing all the dirty work compiling it! its working great.

On Friday, February 8, 2013 2:43:20 PM UTC-7, Peter Tribble wrote:
>
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 9:36 PM, Will Arroyo 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > 
> > thank you for the help! I have got node running but i am having trouble 
> with 
> > npm...all i see in the bin directory is a npm-cli.js file. is this 
> suppose 
> > to be in my path? 
>
> Oops (I didn't say I had thoroughly tested it). What I should have written 
> was 
>
> cd bin 
> ln -s ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js npm 
>
> so that npm is a symlink to that script. You'll probably have to edit 
> that as well, so it's got the correct path to the node binary in it. 
>
> > On Friday, February 8, 2013 11:42:27 AM UTC-7, Peter Tribble wrote: 
> >> 
> >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6:38 PM, Will Arroyo <[email protected]> 
> wrote: 
> >> > Wow thanks for the fast response! I also already have curl installed, 
> so 
> >> > in 
> >> > order to use my own curl would I just change those sym links? 
> >> 
> >> No, if you arrange it so that it finds your curl first, then you'll 
> >> be fine. You could then just delete the curl I ship (which is just 
> >> a convenience for people who don't have it already). (Ditto the 
> >> symlinks for tar and make - I think npm expects the gnu versions 
> >> of tar and make.) 
> >> 
> >> > On Friday, February 8, 2013 11:28:28 AM UTC-7, Peter Tribble wrote: 
> >> >> 
> >> >> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 6:10 PM, Will Arroyo <[email protected]> 
> >> >> wrote: 
> >> >> > I know this is an old thread but I want to use your package for 
> >> >> > solaris 
> >> >> > 10. 
> >> >> > Only thing is I want to install it in my home directory not 
> opt/node. 
> >> >> > how 
> >> >> > can this be done? 
> >> >> 
> >> >> You can extract the files out of a package with pkgtrans, the only 
> >> >> bit this will miss is any symbolic or hard links. 
> >> >> 
> >> >> Something like this ought to work: 
> >> >> 
> >> >> bunzip2 TRIBnode-0.8.19.0.pkg.bz2 
> >> >> pkgtrans TRIBnode-0.8.19.0.pkg . 
> >> >> mv TRIBnode/root/opt/Node . 
> >> >> 
> >> >> you'll need to set LD_LIBRARY_PATH (one day I'll get around 
> >> >> to fixing this because it shouldn't really be necessary) 
> >> >> 
> >> >> env LD_LIBRARY_PATH=Node/lib PATH=Node/bin:$PATH node ... 
> >> >> 
> >> >> and if you want npm to work there are a few more symlinks 
> >> >> 
> >> >> cd Node/lib 
> >> >> ln -s libcurl.so.4.2.0 libcurl.so.4 
> >> >> ln -s libcurl.so.4.2.0 libcurl.so 
> >> >> cd ../bin 
> >> >> ln -s /usr/sfw/bin/gmake make 
> >> >> ln -s ../lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npm-cli.js* 
> >> >> ln -s /usr/sfw/bin/gtar tar 
> >> 
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