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1. If we are not going to install nodejs or io.js from source, we may not need to have c++ compiler or libssl-dev package 2. the `build-essential` and `libssl-dev` packages should work on all the Debian and Ubuntu based GNU/Linux distros 3. Remove useless blank lines
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| ## Installation | ||||
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| First you'll need to make sure your system has a c++ compiler. For OS X, Xcode will work, for Ubuntu, the `build-essential` and `libssl-dev` packages work. | ||||
| If you're running a system without prepackaged binary available, which means you're going to install nodejs or io.js from its source code, you need to make sure your system has a c++ compiler. For OS X, Xcode will work, for Debian/Ubuntu based GNU/Linux, the `build-essential` and `libssl-dev` packages work. | ||||
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| **Note:** `nvm` does not support Windows (see [#284](https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/284)). Two alternatives exist, which are neither supported nor developed by us: | ||||
|  - [nvm-windows](https://github.com/coreybutler/nvm-windows) | ||||
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|  - [fast-nvm-fish](https://github.com/brigand/fast-nvm-fish) only works with version numbers (not aliases) but doesn't significantly slow your shell startup | ||||
|  - [plugin-nvm](https://github.com/derekstavis/plugin-nvm) plugin for [Oh My Fish](https://github.com/oh-my-fish/oh-my-fish), which makes nvm and its completions available in fish shell | ||||
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| **Note:** We still have some problems with FreeBSD, because there is no official pre-built binary for FreeBSD, and building from source may need [patches](https://www.freshports.org/www/node/files/patch-deps_v8_src_base_platform_platform-posix.cc); see the issue ticket: | ||||
|  - [[#900] [Bug] nodejs on FreeBSD need to be patched ](https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/900) | ||||
|  - [nodejs/node#3716](https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/3716) | ||||
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