Forever working on raspbian
To make it all work neatly, you just have to follow the node.js download page instructions for debian, which basically is the following commands:

apt-get install python g++ make
mkdir ~/nodejs && cd $_
wget -N http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz
tar xzvf node-latest.tar.gz && cd `ls -rd node-v*`
./configure
make install