configure: error: "libssh >= 0.7.0 not found" on ubuntu 14.04

[bulleric]

Hello I tried to compile tmate-slave on ubuntu 14.04

the dependency libssh-dev is installed but it still not found when i run configure.
Any advice?

Beste Regards

Eric

[lnxbil]

Try to compile it yourself. I needed to do that on Debian Jessie.

[field-theory]

I had the same issue using Ubuntu Linux 14.04LTS. The reason is hidden in the config.log file: The version of libssh that ships on Ubuntu by default is version 0.6.* and thus is too old.

Unfortunately, you must manually install both libssh and msgpack-c (see the other issue on this subject).

[thselvam]

Hi @field-theory, could you please comment, how did you solved this libssh issue. I tried to compile and install from the master tree of libssh from git which is version 0.7.3 but I still get this ./configure error on my 14.04 macine.

Thanks in Advance!

[field-theory]

@thselvam I needed to manually install msgpack-c and libssh. For both I have set up temporary build directories and a common artifacts directory. Assuming the latter is ~/artifacts the files are built and configured as follows:

git clone [email protected]:msgpack/msgpack-c.git
cd msgpack-c ; ./configure --prefix=~/artifacts ; make install
git clone git://git.libssh.org/projects/libssh.git
mkdir tmp-build ; cd tmp-build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=~/artifacts -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ../libssh
make install

Then the tmate-slave can be built via

export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=~/artifacts/lib/pkgconfig/
cd tmate-slave
./autogen.sh
./configure
make

However, the resulting server does not work properly. :^(
I keep getting the same error message reported here: tmate-io/tmate#82

Presumably, there is another dependency that's broken on Ubuntu 14.04LTS. No idea which ones that is ...

[clindsey]

I followed the recipe from https://github.com/tmate-io/tmate-kitchen/blob/master/site-cookbooks/tmate_slave/recipes/libssh.rb and it completes without any errors but tmate still isn't able to find the newly installed version

[mikeblakeney]

@clindsey I had the same issue. In my case, I was using ubuntu, so I added the ppa mentioned here tmate-io/tmate#82 (comment) and was able to get tmate-slave built