Installing the tools required

Many readers will be comfortable enough with simply installing Chrome and Node.js, if they were not already installed some time ago. For those who would prefer step-by-step directions, here are the details of installing the appropriate software.

Google Chrome can be installed from http://google.com/chrome. Note that for some Linux distributions, Chrome may or may not be available from your package manager. Google Chrome is an obvious choice to think of for something to include in a distribution's packages, but licensing concerns may list Chrome as non-free due to some of its parts, meaning that as far as the distribution maintainers are concerned, you may be welcome to use this, but we're not comfortable including ...

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