diff --git a/install.sh b/install.sh
index 0e44e04..0481186 100644
--- a/install.sh
+++ b/install.sh
@@ -12,6 +12,10 @@
 # curl -fsSL https://example.com/setup-min.bash | bash
 # wget -nv https://example.com/setup-min.bash -O - | bash
 
+# Not every platform has or needs sudo, gotta save them O(1)s...
+sudo_cmd=""
+((EUID)) && [[ -z "$ANDROID_ROOT" ]] && sudo_cmd="sudo"
+
 deps_flag="$1"
 set -e
 set -u
@@ -95,7 +99,7 @@ elif [ "$(uname | grep -i 'Linux')" ]; then
     exit 1
   fi
 
-  if [ -n "$(arch | grep 64)" ]; then
+  if [ -n "$(uname -a | grep 64)" ]; then
     ARCH="64"
   else
     ARCH="32"
@@ -117,6 +121,8 @@ elif [ "$(uname | grep -i 'Linux')" ]; then
     OS='raspbian'
   elif [ "$(cat /etc/issue | grep -i 'Fedora')" ]; then
     OS='fedora'
+  elif [ "$(cat /etc/issue | grep -i 'Marvell')" ]; then
+    OS='marvell'
   fi
 else
   echo "unsupported unknown os (non-mac, non-linux)"
@@ -134,6 +140,9 @@ case "${OS}" in
   raspbian)
     SETUP_FILE="ubuntu"
     ;;
+  marvell)
+    SETUP_FILE="ubuntu"
+    ;;
   yosemite)
     # mavericks
     SETUP_FILE="mavericks"
@@ -236,10 +245,10 @@ fi
 
 if [ -z "$NODEJS_VER" ]; then
   if [ -n "$(type -p curl)" ]; then
-    NODEJS_VER=$(curl -fsL "$NODEJS_BASE_URL/dist/index.tab" | head -2 | tail -1 | cut -f 1) \
+    NODEJS_VER=$(curl -fsL "$NODEJS_BASE_URL/dist/index.tab" | head -n 2 | tail -1 | cut -f 1) \
       || echo 'error automatically determining current node.js version'
   elif [ -n "$(type -p wget)" ]; then
-    NODEJS_VER=$(wget --quiet "$NODEJS_BASE_URL/dist/index.tab" -O - | head -2 | tail -1 | cut -f 1) \
+    NODEJS_VER=$(wget --quiet "$NODEJS_BASE_URL/dist/index.tab" -O - | head -n 2 | tail -1 | cut -f 1) \
       || echo 'error automatically determining current node.js version'
   else
     echo "Found neither 'curl' nor 'wget'. Can't Continue."
@@ -284,7 +293,7 @@ if [ -n "${NODEJS_VER}" ]; then
   bash "/tmp/${INSTALL_FILE}" "${NODEJS_VER}"
 fi
 
-sudo chown -R $(whoami) $node_install_path/lib/node_modules
+$sudo_cmd chown -R $(whoami) $node_install_path/lib/node_modules
 
 echo ""
 
diff --git a/setup-deps-ubuntu.bash b/setup-deps-ubuntu.bash
index 1185389..16ef7c2 100644
--- a/setup-deps-ubuntu.bash
+++ b/setup-deps-ubuntu.bash
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 
 # curl -fsSL https://ldsconnect.org/setup-linux.bash | bash -c
 
+# Not every platform has or needs sudo, gotta save them O(1)s...
+sudo_cmd=""
+((EUID)) && [[ -z "$ANDROID_ROOT" ]] && sudo_cmd="sudo"
+
 NO_FAIL2BAN=${1}
 
 echo ""
@@ -18,7 +22,7 @@ echo "    * jshint"
 echo ""
 
 echo "updating apt-get..."
-sudo bash -c "apt-get update -qq -y < /dev/null" > /dev/null
+$sudo_cmd bash -c "apt-get update -qq -y < /dev/null" > /dev/null
 
 # fail2ban
 #if [ -z "$(which fail2ban-server | grep fail2ban)" ]; then
@@ -32,5 +36,5 @@ sudo bash -c "apt-get update -qq -y < /dev/null" > /dev/null
 if [ -z "$(type -p pkg-config)" ] || [ -z "$(type -p git)" ] || [ -z "$(type -p wget)" ] || [ -z "$(type -p curl)" ] || [ -z "$(type -p gcc)" ] || [ -z "$(type -p rsync)" ] || [ -z "$(type -p python)" ]
 then
   echo "installing git, wget, curl, build-essential, rsync, pkg-config, python..."
-  sudo bash -c "apt-get install -qq -y git wget curl build-essential rsync pkg-config python < /dev/null" > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
+  $sudo_cmd bash -c "apt-get install -qq -y git wget curl build-essential rsync pkg-config python < /dev/null" > /dev/null 2>/dev/null
 fi
diff --git a/setup-node-ubuntu.bash b/setup-node-ubuntu.bash
index 7b80775..1eaa5b7 100644
--- a/setup-node-ubuntu.bash
+++ b/setup-node-ubuntu.bash
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 #!/bin/bash
 
+# Not every platform has or needs sudo, gotta save them O(1)s...
+sudo_cmd=""
+((EUID)) && [[ -z "$ANDROID_ROOT" ]] && sudo_cmd="sudo"
+
 set -e
 set -u
 set -o pipefail
@@ -27,15 +31,15 @@ then
   NODEJS_NAME="iojs"
 fi
 
-if [ -n "$(arch | grep aarch64)" ]; then
+if [ -n "$(uname -a | grep aarch64)" ]; then
   ARCH="arm64"
-elif [ -n "$(arch | grep 64)" ]; then
+elif [ -n "$(uname -a | grep 64)" ]; then
   ARCH="x64"
-elif [ -n "$(arch | grep armv8l)" ]; then
+elif [ -n "$(uname -a | grep armv8l)" ]; then
   ARCH="arm64"
-elif [ -n "$(arch | grep armv7l)" ]; then
+elif [ -n "$(uname -a | grep armv7l)" ]; then
   ARCH="armv7l"
-elif [ -n "$(arch | grep armv6l)" ]; then
+elif [ -n "$(uname -a | grep armv6l)" ]; then
   ARCH="armv6l"
 else
   ARCH="x86"
@@ -59,11 +63,14 @@ if [ -n "${NODEJS_VER}" ]; then
   fi
 
   mkdir -p ${NODEJS_UNTAR}/
-  tar xf ${NODEJS_LOCAL} -C ${NODEJS_UNTAR}/ --strip-components=1
-  rm ${NODEJS_UNTAR}/{LICENSE,CHANGELOG.md,README.md}
-  sudo rsync -a "${NODEJS_UNTAR}/" "$node_install_path/"
+  # --strip-components isn't portable, switch to portable version by performing move step after untar
+  tar xf ${NODEJS_LOCAL} -C ${NODEJS_UNTAR}/ #--strip-components=1
+  mv ${NODEJS_UNTAR}/${NODEJS_NAME}-${NODEJS_VER}-linux-${ARCH}/* ${NODEJS_UNTAR}/
+  rm -rf ${NODEJS_UNTAR}/${NODEJS_NAME}-${NODEJS_VER}-linux-${ARCH} # clean up the temporary unzip folder
+  rm ${NODEJS_UNTAR}/{LICENSE,CHANGELOG.md,README.md} 
+  $sudo_cmd rsync -av "${NODEJS_UNTAR}/" "$node_install_path/"
+  rm -rf "${NODEJS_UNTAR}"
 
-
-  sudo chown -R $(whoami) "$node_install_path/lib/node_modules/"
-  sudo chown $(whoami) ""$node_install_path"/bin/"
-fi
+  $sudo_cmd chown -R $(whoami) "$node_install_path/lib/node_modules/"
+  $sudo_cmd chown $(whoami) ""$node_install_path"/bin/"
+fi
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