Build Instructions

Most of this is noted in the main README. But here are some additional bits.

As of Mosh 1.2, Boost is no longer needed.

OSX

• Should be in ports as "mosh" and homebrew as "mobile-shell"
• Tested on Snow Leopard and Lion
• clang++ works. (export CXX=clang++)
• You may need a newer autoconf to build from master. But the tarballs are fine.

Manually: (adapt as needed)

brew install protobuf
brew install boost
brew install pkg-config

git clone https://github.com/keithw/mosh.git
cd mosh
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

Athena

You don't need to build here. It's in the mosh_project locker. --server='athrun mosh_project mosh-server'

Debian 6.0 Stable (squeeze)#

Nobody's packaged mosh for Debian stable yet. In lieu of doing so myself, here is the quick list of packages I found I needed to install before mosh would compile, and run:

apt-get install protobuf-compiler libprotobuf-dev libutempter-dev libboost-dev libio-pty-perl pkg-config

Notes:

• libio-pty-perl is not needed for compilation/installation, just runtime
• I installed all of the libboost-*1.42-dev pkgs as well, but I'm guessing libboost-dev is the minimum needed

Ubuntu

sudo apt-get install automake libtool g++ protobuf-compiler libprotobuf-dev libboost-dev libutempter-dev libncurses5-dev zlib1g-dev libio-pty-perl

git clone https://github.com/keithw/mosh.git
cd mosh
./autogen.sh
./configure
make
make install

Notes:

• libio-pty-perl is not needed for compilation/installation, just runtime
• mosh-server and mosh-client will be in src/frontend/

Amazon Linux AMI

In case you want to install mosh on an Amazon Linux AMI:

1. Enable the EPEL repository.
2. sudo yum install protobuf-compiler protobuf-devel libutempter-devel ncurses ncurses-devel zlib-devel boost-devel
3. Download the latest release from http://mosh.mit.edu, unzip, and ./configure, make, sudo make install.

Some of the yum packages may be unnecessary, but this worked for me.

Note that you'll also have to open up ports 60000-61000. On EC2, you can do this through the AWS management console under EC2 > Security Groups.