Upgrade nodejs to the latest version from the repo

This is possible in newer versions of the nodejs cookbook, by setting
the `node["nodejs"]["package_action"]["nodejs"]` attribute to `:upgrade`

cookbooks/nodejs/recipes/nodejs_from_source.rb

@@ -18,15 +18,18 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-Chef::Recipe.send(:include, NodeJs::Helper)
+Chef::DSL::Recipe.include NodeJs::Helper
 
-include_recipe 'build-essential'
+build_essential 'install build tools'
 
 case node['platform_family']
 when 'rhel', 'fedora', 'amazon'
-  package %w(openssl-devel tar)
+  # The ark resource uses and requires python2 for builds
+  package %w(openssl-devel python2 tar)
 when 'debian'
-  package 'libssl-dev'
+  package %w(libssl-dev python)
+when 'suse'
+  package %w(python)
 end
 
 version = "v#{node['nodejs']['version']}/"
@@ -42,4 +45,5 @@ ark archive_name do
   checksum node['nodejs']['source']['checksum']
   make_opts ["-j #{node['nodejs']['make_threads']}"]
   action :install_with_make
+  environment(PYTHON: 'python2')
 end