Install bower on Ubuntu 14.10
Summary of the command line to use
$ sudo apt-get install npm nodejs $ sudo npm install bower -g $ ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
Explanation
$ sudo apt-get install npm nodejs
Then you can install bower$ sudo npm install bower -g
Quick check$ bower --version
You might get
/usr/bin/env: node: No such file or directory
which you solve using
$ ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node
$ bower --version
1.3.12
Yeah!