Ncdc Installation Instructions
General instructions
Building from source
In theory, the following instructions should work everywhere:
- Install the required dependencies: ncurses, bzip2, zlib, sqlite3, glib2 and gnutls,
- Download and extract the source tarball from the homepage,
./configure
make
- And then run
make install
with superuser permissions.
In practice, however, this does not always work and may not always be the prefered method of installation. On this page I try to collect instructions for each OS and distribution to make the installation process a bit easier for everyone.
If your system is missing from this page or if you’re still having
trouble, don’t hesitate to join the support hub at
adcs://dc.blicky.net:2780/
or send me a mail at projects@yorhel.nl. Contributions
to this page are of course highly welcomed as well. :-)
Statically linked binaries
If you just want to get ncdc running without going through the trouble of compiling and/or installing it, I also offer statically linked binaries:
To use them, simply download and extract the tarball, and then run
./ncdc
on the command line.
The binaries include all the required dependencies and are linked against musl, so they should run on any Linux machine with the right architecture. If you want binaries for an other OS or architecture, please bug me and I’ll see what I can do.
System-specific instructions
(These instructions have not been tested in a long time, there’s a good chance they may not work anymore)
Android
An convenient installer is available for Android 2.3 and later, which makes use of the static binary.
Arch Linux
Ncdc is available on AUR, to install it you can use your favorite AUR-installer. If you don’t have a favorite, go for the manual approach:
wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/ncdc.tar.gz
tar -xf ncdc.tar.gz
cd ncdc
makepkg -si
Fedora
There’s a package available for Fedora.
FreeBSD
Ncdc is available in the Ports Collection. To install, make sure your collection is up-to-date and install the Port as any other:
cd /usr/ports/net-p2p/ncdc
make install clean
Gentoo
Ncdc is available in the Portage tree, so installation is trivial:
emerge ncdc
Mac OS X
Ncdc is available in Homebrew.
OpenBSD
Compile & install from source:
doas pkg_add -i glib2
ftp https://dev.yorhel.nl/download/ncdc-1.25.tar.gz
tar zxvf ncdc-1.25.tar.gz
cd ncdc-1.25
./configure NCURSES_CFLAGS="-lncurses" NCURSES_LIBS="-lncursesw"\
CPPFLAGS="-I/usr/include -I/usr/local/include"\
LDFLAGS="-L/usr/lib -L/usr/local/lib"
make
doas make install
OpenIndiana
This has been tested on OpenIndiana Build 151a Server, but may work on other versions as well. Compiling from source is your only option at the moment. First install some required packages (as root):
pkg install gcc-3 glib2 gnutls gettext header-math perl-510/extra
Then, fetch the ncdc source tarball, extract and build as follows:
wget https://dev.yorhel.nl/download/ncdc-1.25.tar.gz
tar -xf ncdc-1.25.tar.gz
cd ncdc-1.25
export PATH="$PATH:/usr/perl5/5.10.0/bin"
./configure --prefix=/usr LDFLAGS='-L/usr/gnu/lib -R/usr/gnu/lib'
make
And finally, to actually install ncdc, run make install
as root. You can safely revert $PATH
back to its previous
value if you wish, it was only necessary in order for
./configure
and make
to find
pod2man
.
OpenSUSE
Get the package from PackMan: Select your openSUSE release and hit the “1 click install” button.
Ubuntu & Debian
If you’re running a recent enough release, you may be able to just do a
sudo apt install ncdc
Otherwise you may have to grab the package from a backport or use the static binaries above.
Alternatively, you can also try to compile ncdc from source. To do so, first install the required libraries:
sudo apt-get install libbz2-dev libsqlite3-dev libncurses5-dev\
libncursesw5-dev libglib2.0-dev libgnutls-dev zlib1g-dev
Then run the following commands to download and install ncdc:
wget https://dev.yorhel.nl/download/ncdc-1.25.tar.gz
tar -xf ncdc-1.25.tar.gz
cd ncdc-1.25
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
sudo make install
Windows (Cygwin)
Surprisingly enough, ncdc can be used even on Windows, thanks to
Cygwin. If you haven’t done so already, get setup.exe
from
the Cygwin website and use it to
install the following packages:
- make
- gcc4
- perl
- pkg-config
- wget
- zlib-devel
- libncursesw-devel
- libbz2-devel
- libglib2.0-devel
- libsqlite3-devel
- gnutls-devel
Then open a Cygwin terminal and run the following commands to download, compile, and install ncdc:
wget https://dev.yorhel.nl/download/ncdc-1.25.tar.gz
tar -xf ncdc-1.25.tar.gz
cd ncdc-1.25
./configure --prefix=/usr
make install