etsy/statsd — comment on commit 82f64c18102b2fcb2f76cad79586757717ccfaf8
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By ezranuite:

I'm not sure what you'd need to do to keep StatsD reliant only on Aptitude packages. The work around seems to be installing nvm which will let you do nodejs version management easily.

I haven't tried it out yet though, so I might be wrong.