Install mosh server without root permission

install_mosh_locally.sh

#!/bin/sh


# this script does absolutely ZERO error checking.   however, it worked
# for me on a RHEL 6.3 machine on 2012-08-08.  clearly, the version numbers
# and/or URLs should be made variables.  cheers,  zmil...@cs.wisc.edu


mkdir mosh
cd mosh

ROOT=`pwd`

echo "==================================="
echo "about to set up everything in $ROOT"
echo "==================================="

mkdir build
mkdir install

cd build
curl -O https://github.com/google/protobuf/releases/download/v2.6.1/protobuf-2.6.1.tar.gz
curl -O https://mosh.mit.edu/mosh-1.2.4.tar.gz
tar zxvf protobuf-2.6.1.tar.gz
tar zxvf mosh-1.2.4.tar.gz

echo "================="
echo "building protobuf"
echo "================="

cd $ROOT/build/protobuf-2.6.1
./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --disable-shared
make install


echo "============="
echo "building mosh"
echo "============="

cd $ROOT/build/mosh-1.2.4
export PROTOC=$HOME/local/bin/protoc
export protobuf_CFLAGS=-I$HOME/local/include
export protobuf_LIBS=$HOME/local/lib/libprotobuf.a

./configure --prefix=$HOME/local
make install

echo "==="
echo "if all was successful, binaries are now in $ROOT/install/mosh/bin"
echo "==="

Note: protobuf link is out of date. Go to their site, the cpp version works well

Thanks so much for posting this! Very helpful for students without root access.

Sucessfully got locally-installed mosh working on a CentOS 7 server using ./configure --prefix=$HOME/local --disable-shared "CFLAGS=-fPIC" "CXXFLAGS=-fPIC" on line 32 to fix a relocation R_X86_64_32S against '.rodata' can not be used when making a shared object error from protobuf (I used protobuf-cpp-3.5.1 per Parker's recommendation, but the same error occurred with the 2.6.1 version in the post).

As a note, line 49 was incorrect for me–the mosh binaries were in ~/local/bin with the protobuf binary. Also, need to add export PATH=~/local/bin:$PATH to your .bashrc to get things working.

Thank you so much! It finally works for my Linux platform after adding "CFLAGS=-fPIC" "CXXFLAGS=-fPIC" to the configure line.

How do I keep the mosh-server running?

curl no more works for getting releases from github. use with -L or wget instead.

instead of this outdated, error-prone guide, use the precompiled mosh-server binary referenced here