So yesterday while I was sitting in front of my computer, getting bored, had nothing to do. I decided to tweak my RHEL desktop to make it little more cool to work on. Since I only use it for serious work there were not much applications installed. So I tried to install my favorite music player MPD with NCMPCPP but that was not so easy ( at least for me). It took me so much time (almost whole day) just to figure out how to install NCMPCPP. So I am posting this how-to for anyone else who might be looking for the same.
Installing MPD and MPC
First install the RPMforge repository :-
http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
Tip: use “uname -i” to get your architecture info and replace x86_64 according to that.
Install DAG’s gpg key :-
# rpm --import http://apt.sw.be/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt
Verify the package :-
# rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
Install the package :-
# rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.2-2.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm
Install MPC and MPD :-
# yum --enablerepo=rpmforge install mpd mpc
Installing NCMPCPP :-
$ cd $HOME $ git clone git://repo.or.cz/ncmpcpp.git
Install some prerequisites before compiling :-
# yum install ncurses-devel taglib-devel libmpdclient2-devel
* this “libmpdclient2-devel” was not available on my system that is why i was getting the compiling errors. Took me whole day just to figure out the package is libmpdclient2-devel . Always remember if you get any compilation errors on RHEL always make sure the related “-devel” package is present.
Compile NCMPCPP :-
$ cd ncmpcpp $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr --enable-clock --with-taglib
* See ./autogen.sh –help for more options that you can enable/disable.
$ make $ sudo make install
See this Archlinux wiki for MPD configuration, although it is Archlinux but the MPD configuration is applicable on RHEL. (See this link Archlinux:MPD)
And here is a sample NCMPCPP config file. Save this file as ~/.ncmpcpp/config (Here is the file)
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Ok, I found solution to previous issue, it needed to have full devtools packages installed:
yum install devtoolset-1.0
and exported new path:
export PATH=/opt/centos/devtoolset-1.0/root/usr/bin/:$PATH
and installed missing package:
yum install boost-devel
and linked missing file:
ln -s /usr/include/boost/typeof/std/locale.hpp /usr/include/boost/locale.hpp
and still hit new wall that is explained in this arch post:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ncmpcpp-git/?setlang=hr&comments=all
“configure: error: no boost.locale library found”
Looks it just won’t compile on Centos 6.3…
Hmm, actually this guide unfortunatelly is not working 😦
I get an error that too old version of GCC is installed when running autogen command:
configure: error: Your compiler doesn’t seem to support lambda functions, please upgrade (GCC >= 4.6)
Then I installed devtools repo and newer gcc:
wget http://dev.centos.org/~tru/devtools/devtools.repo
cp devtools.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/
yum install devtoolset-1.0-gcc
new gcc is located in:
/opt/centos/devtoolset-1.0/root/usr/bin/gcc
any I even renamed gcc:
mv /usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc.old
And linked new version to old:
ln -s /opt/centos/devtoolset-1.0/root/usr/bin/gcc /usr/bin/gcc
But I still get same error 😦
Any ideas?
Awesome guide, you are only missing one dependency – “libtool”