mobile-shell / mobile-shell/mosh
Mosh binary distribution needed to avoid dependency-hell
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Description
A very common use-case for ssh or mosh, is when you want to connect to a large server or cluster that is provided by a university or a company and you are not sudo on the remote server. You need to install everything in your home directory. Sadly, apt-get or yum are of strictly no use in such a case. One of the biggest glaring flaws of linux distributions IMO.
Mosh is notoriously difficult to install because of its multiple dependencies. For instance, it depends on protobuff, which itself depends on libtool and soon you find yourself battling with the autogen.sh step of protobuff to point it to the libtool install location with LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables to no avail.
Could we not have a simple static binary distribution of mosh, mosh-client and mosh-server for linux 64 bit systems? mosh is currently uninstallable.
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Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Start by reviewing the existing build and release process for Linux, focusing on how mosh, mosh-client, and mosh-server dependencies are packaged. Done means a documented, usable static 64-bit Linux distribution that avoids requiring administrator access or manual dependency installation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- cpp, linux
- Domain
- build-system, release
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100