Installing nodejs on Red Hat

I am trying to install node.js on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1 using the following command:

sudo yum install nodejs npm

I got the following error:

Error: Package: nodejs-0.10.24-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
           Requires: libssl.so.10(libssl.so.10)(64bit)
Error: Package: nodejs-devel-0.10.24-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
           Requires: libcrypto.so.10(libcrypto.so.10)(64bit)
Error: Package: nodejs-0.10.24-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
           Requires: libcrypto.so.10(libcrypto.so.10)(64bit)
Error: Package: nodejs-devel-0.10.24-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
           Requires: libssl.so.10(libssl.so.10)(64bit)
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

I tried the following command as well:

sudo yum install -y nodejs

I am getting the following error:

Error: Package: nodejs-0.10.24-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
           Requires: libssl.so.10(libssl.so.10)(64bit)
Error: Package: nodejs-0.10.24-1.el6.x86_64 (epel)
           Requires: libcrypto.so.10(libcrypto.so.10)(64bit)

How should I install it? I want to install the latest version.

Solution

You need to update your version of CentOS 6 to 6.5+ or at least your copy of OpenSSL because the node.js package provided for CentOS 6 was compiled on a system that had a newer version of OpenSSL which is available in 6.5+.

The alternative is to compile and install node manually from source or use the precompiled binaries from nodejs.org.