Installing NodeJS

yum install git

Then you'll need openssl-devel to compile node.

yum install openssl-devel

Download the lastest version of node, compile it and install it.

cd /usr/local/src
wget http://nodejs.org/dist/node-v0.6.2.tar.gz
tar zxvf node-v0.6.2.tar.gz
./configure
make
make install

Install npm.

curl http://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh

Finally install coffee script. (-g means globally)

npm install -g coffee-script

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if you are getting "ImportError: No module named bz2 "

1. install the bzip2-devel package for your distro. (In Centos it's bzip2-devel)
2. recompile python