[mosh-devel] [mosh-users] Getting mosh working

[Adelbert Chang]

Awesome, thanks for the reply and all your help!

Keep up the good work with Mosh!

Regards,
-Adelbert

On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 7:37 PM, Alexander Chernyakhovsky
<achernya at mit.edu>wrote:

>  HI Aldebert,
>
>  Minor follow-up, it appears yumdownloader has a "--resolve" option,
> which will additionally download all dependencies. I would recommend using
> this flag to get mosh in addition to all of its currently not installed
> dependencies.
>
>  Sincerely,
> -Alex
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* mosh-users-bounces at MIT.EDU [mosh-users-bounces at MIT.EDU] on behalf
> of Alexander Chernyakhovsky [achernya at MIT.EDU]
> *Sent:* Monday, April 09, 2012 10:22 PM
> *To:* Adelbert Chang; mosh-users at mit.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [mosh-users] Getting mosh working
>
>   Hi Aldebert,
>
>  I am the maintainer of the Fedora mosh packages. mosh is currently
> available for Fedora 15 and newer. The recommended way of installing mosh
> is "yum install mosh", but as you pointed out, this requires root
> privileges. However, since the binaries do not require root privileges, the
> following will install them into your home directory:
> $ mkdir extractedRPMS
> $ cd extractedRPMS
> $ yumdownloader mosh
> $ rpm2cpio mosh*.rpm | cpio -id
>
>  This will extract the mosh RPM into the folder "extractedRPMS",
> producing a full tree. The mosh binaries will be in extractedRPMs/usr/bin/.
> Provided that you have all of the necessary libraries installed on the
> server, the binaries will "just work" and you can invoke mosh with the
> --server=FULL/PATH/TO/mosh-sever to connect.
>
>  If you are missing libraries (such as libprotobuf, or libutempter) you
> can repeat the above procedure to download and extract those packages.
> However, if you do so, you will need to start mosh-server with an
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH that includes the newly-extracted libraries.
>
>  mosh was only recently pushed to stable, so if you encounter any issues
> using yumdownloader, please use the following direct links to download the
> appropriate package:
>
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/15/x86_64/mosh-1.1.1-1.fc15.x86_64.rpm
>
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/16/x86_64/mosh-1.1.1-1.fc16.x86_64.rpm
>
>
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/15/i386/mosh-1.1.1-1.fc15.i686.rpm
>
> http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/updates/16/i386/mosh-1.1.1-1.fc16.i686.rpm
>
>  Sincerely,
> -Alex
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *From:* mosh-users-bounces at MIT.EDU [mosh-users-bounces at MIT.EDU] on behalf
> of Adelbert Chang [adelbertc at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Monday, April 09, 2012 10:00 PM
> *To:* mosh-users at mit.edu
> *Subject:* [mosh-users] Getting mosh working
>
>  Hello,
>
>  So I came across Mosh today and it looks amazing, though I'm having a
> bit of trouble getting it working. I have the .dmg installed on my Mac, and
> I want to use it on the cluster machines in my research lab. Is it possible
> to get Mosh installed on the servers without root access and without
> compiling from source? It says on the website "The server binary can even
> be installed in the user's home directory." This is most likely due to my
> incompetence with *nix systems, but is there an alternative way of doing
> that without having root access and compiling from source? The OS on the
> servers is Fedora I believe.
>
>  Thanks!
> -Adelbert
>



-- 
Adelbert (Allen) Chang
B.S. Creative Studies (Computer Science Emphasis)
University of California at Santa Barbara
http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~adelbert_chang
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