diff --git a/anvil/components/horizon.py b/anvil/components/horizon.py
index a322251a..61be1355 100644
--- a/anvil/components/horizon.py
+++ b/anvil/components/horizon.py
@@ -72,42 +72,6 @@ class HorizonInstaller(comp.PythonInstallComponent):
         comp.PythonInstallComponent.verify(self)
         self._check_ug()
 
-    def pre_install(self):
-        self._install_node_repo()
-
-    def _install_node_repo(self):
-        repo_url = self.get_option('nodejs_repo')
-        if not repo_url:
-            # Ok then, hope node js is in your path for when horizon attempts
-            # to use it... if not possibly follow:
-            #
-            # http://www.chrisabernethy.com/installing-node-js-on-centos-redhat/
-            return
-        # Download the said url and install it so that we can actually install
-        # the node.js requirement which seems to be needed by horizon for css compiling??
-        repo_basename = sh.basename(repo_url)
-        (_fn, fn_ext) = os.path.splitext(repo_basename)
-        fn_ext = fn_ext.lower().strip()
-        if fn_ext not in ['.rpm', '.repo']:
-            LOG.warn("Unknown node.js repository configuration extension %s (we only support .rpm or .repo)!", colorizer.quote(fn_ext))
-            return
-        with NamedTemporaryFile(suffix=fn_ext) as temp_fh:
-            LOG.info("Downloading node.js repository configuration from %s to %s.", repo_url, temp_fh.name)
-            down.UrlLibDownloader(repo_url, temp_fh.name).download()
-            temp_fh.flush()
-            if fn_ext == ".repo":
-                # Just write out the repo file after downloading it...
-                repo_file_name = sh.joinpths("/etc/yum.repos.d", repo_basename)
-                if not sh.exists(repo_file_name):
-                    with sh.Rooted(True):
-                        sh.write_file(repo_file_name, sh.load_file(temp_fh.name),
-                                      tracewriter=self.tracewriter)
-                        sh.chmod(repo_file_name, 0644)
-            elif fn_ext == ".rpm":
-                # Install it instead from said rpm (which likely is a
-                # file that contains said repo location)...
-                yum.YumPackager(self.distro).direct_install(temp_fh.name)
-
     @property
     def symlinks(self):
         links = super(HorizonInstaller, self).symlinks
diff --git a/conf/components/horizon.yaml b/conf/components/horizon.yaml
index e84dd2ba..b0630173 100644
--- a/conf/components/horizon.yaml
+++ b/conf/components/horizon.yaml
@@ -17,13 +17,6 @@ apache_user: "$(auto:user)"
 # Port horizon should run on
 port: 80
 
-# We need to get a viable node.js repository to work
-# with, this is only really needed for distributions where
-# said distributions do not have node.js available yet...
-#
-# NOTE(harlowja): blank out/remove as needed...
-nodejs_repo: "http://nodejs.tchol.org/repocfg/el/nodejs-stable-release.noarch.rpm"
-
 # Needed for setting up your database
 db:
   type: "$(db:type)"
diff --git a/conf/distros/rhel.yaml b/conf/distros/rhel.yaml
index 9af4fb8c..bd694566 100644
--- a/conf/distros/rhel.yaml
+++ b/conf/distros/rhel.yaml
@@ -259,9 +259,7 @@ components:
         packages:
         -   name: httpd
         -   name: mod_wsgi
-        -   name: nodejs
-        -   name: nodejs-compat-symlinks
-        -   name: npm
+        -   name: ./local-rpms/nodejs-0.10.0-1.x86_64.rpm
         pips:
         -   name: django-openstack-auth
         -   name: nosexcover
diff --git a/local-rpms/nodejs-0.10.0-1.x86_64.rpm b/local-rpms/nodejs-0.10.0-1.x86_64.rpm
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..136f0b38
Binary files /dev/null and b/local-rpms/nodejs-0.10.0-1.x86_64.rpm differ
diff --git a/tools/build-install-node-from-source.sh b/tools/build-install-node-from-source.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..fbcb52a7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/build-install-node-from-source.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+set -x
+
+nodejs_dir="`pwd`/.nodejs-build-dir"
+mkdir $nodejs_dir
+cd $nodejs_dir
+
+echo "Downloading http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz"
+wget "http://nodejs.org/dist/node-latest.tar.gz"
+tar -xzf node-latest.tar.gz
+
+VERSION=`ls $nodejs_dir/ | grep node-v | cut -d 'v' -f2`
+echo $VERSION
+
+cd node-v$VERSION*
+export CFLAGS=" -w -pipe -O3"
+export CXXFLAGS=" -w -pipe -O3"
+./configure --prefix=/usr
+
+echo
+echo "Building Node ..."
+make
+
+echo
+echo "Installing into $nodejs_dir/install-root ..."
+mkdir -p "$nodejs_dir/install-root"
+make install DESTDIR="$nodejs_dir/install-root"
+
+cd $nodejs_dir
+echo
+echo "Building RPM ..."
+mkdir -p "$nodejs_dir/RPMS"
+
+RELEASE=1
+echo "Name:     nodejs
+
+Version:  $VERSION
+Release:  $RELEASE
+Summary:  Server Side JavaScript Engine	
+URL:      http://nodejs.org	
+Group:    Development/Languages	
+License:  MIT and BSD
+Requires: openssl, zlib, glibc
+
+%description
+Node.js is Google V8 JavaScript with an evented I/O based interface to POSIX.  This RPM was built using https://github.com/ddopson/nodejs-rpm-builder
+as a reference
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+/" > package.spec
+
+rpmbuild -bb package.spec --buildroot "$nodejs_dir/install-root" --define "_topdir $nodejs_dir" --define "VERSION $VERSION"
+
+yum install -y -q $nodejs_dir/RPMS/x86_64/nodejs-$VERSION-$RELEASE.x86_64.rpm
+
+rm -rf $nodejs_dir