Compiling and running mosh on Dreamhost

gistfile1.sh

# Thanks to @samsonjs for the cleaned up version:
# https://gist.github.com/samsonjs/4076746

PREFIX=$HOME
VERSION=1.2.3

# Install Protocol Buffers
wget http://protobuf.googlecode.com/files/protobuf-2.4.1.tar.bz2
tar -xf protobuf-2.4.1.tar.bz2 
cd protobuf-2.4.1
./configure --prefix=$PREFIX
make
make install
cd ..

# You'll need this setting to have mosh find the Protocol Buffer lib
export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=$PREFIX/lib/pkgconfig

# Install mosh
wget https://github.com/downloads/keithw/mosh/mosh-$VERSION.tar.gz
tar -xf mosh-$VERSION.tar.gz 
cd mosh-$VERSION
./configure --prefix=$PREFIX
make
make install

echo You can run this to verify the install worked:
echo   $ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PREFIX/lib
echo   $ mosh-server
echo (Running mosh-server should give you a pid and a key to use if you want to connect manually)

echo To connect to the server in the future, run this on your local machine:
echo   $ mosh --server="LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$PREFIX/lib $PREFIX/bin/mosh-server" $USER@$(hostname -f)

Use ${HOME} instead of /home/your_user

Andrew Giessel's method worked for me when running into the "configure: error: cannot find protoc, the Protocol Buffers compiler" issue.

Though I was installing from $HOME/usr, and needed to do this instead:

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/usr/bin

Many thanks for putting this up. Helped me get mosh running on RHEL7

Was having the same problem on centos, and running

export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/usr/bin

helped.

Thanks so much for sharing this.

I've tweaked the code a bit more, fixing the broken links, updated the versions, and make the entire process a bit more automated and foolproof.
https://gist.github.com/jaywilliams/c9ffab789b3f622abc932dd4cfaaeef5

I hope it helps others out there!