I've been following this gist for installing a bunch of core dependencies for PHP development, but one that I do need and have not been able to get working as of yet is to install Node, NPM (and then Grunt and Bower globally) in Vagrant. I've seen answers like this one but it doesn't ever appear to complete the install (ie. I can't then install bower and grunt). There is a nodejs package through apt-get that does appear to install Node (and I can install NPM from there), but the version appears to be too old for Bower, so that's why I backtracked to a manual approach. Thanks for any help.

Update

Here is my bootstraph.sh file:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

echo ">>> Starting Install Script"

# Update
sudo apt-get update

# Install MySQL without prompt
sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password password root'
sudo debconf-set-selections <<< 'mysql-server mysql-server/root_password_again password root'

echo ">>> Installing Base Items"

# Install base items
sudo apt-get install -y curl wget build-essential python-software-properties python g++ make

echo ">>> Adding PPA's and Installing Server Items"

# Add repo for latest PHP
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ondrej/php5

# Add NodeJS repository
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:chris-lea/node.js

# Update Again
sudo apt-get update

# Install the Rest
sudo apt-get install -y php5 apache2 libapache2-mod-php5 nodejs php5-mysql php5-curl php5-gd php5-mcrypt php5-xdebug mysql-server

echo ">>> Configuring Server"

# xdebug Config
cat << EOF | sudo tee -a /etc/php5/mods-available/xdebug.ini
xdebug.scream=1
xdebug.cli_color=1
xdebug.show_local_vars=1
EOF

# Apache Config
sudo a2enmod rewrite
curl https://gist.github.com/fideloper/2710970/raw/5d7efd74628a1e3261707056604c99d7747fe37d/vhost.sh > vhost
sudo chmod guo+x vhost
sudo mv vhost /usr/local/bin

# Symlink /var/www to project web root
sudo rm -rf /var/www
sudo ln -s /vagrant/ /var/www

# PHP Config
sed -i "s/error_reporting = .*/error_reporting = E_ALL/" /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini
sed -i "s/display_errors = .*/display_errors = On/" /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini

sudo service apache2 restart

echo ">>> Installing NPM, Grunt CLI and Bower"

curl https://npmjs.org/install.sh | sh
sudo npm install -g grunt-cli bower

echo ">>> Installing Composer"

# Composer
curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
sudo mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer