No installation instructions or requirements file for Masterpassword CLI

[crypdick]

I think this is a wonderful concept for password management. Every time I reinstall Linux it's a nightmare getting MPW to work again, though. The main website just links to the CLI archive. No ReadMe or Requirements file in the archive, no build instructions on the website or on Github. I'm stuck as in dependency hell Google-ing one terminal error after another.

[lhunath]

Feel free to paste the errors here. There shouldn't be any. Essentially, if your distribution doesn't provide an "mpw" package, just clone the repo, head over to MasterPassword/C and run ./build and ./install

[crypdick]

No mpw package in Ubuntu or Linux Mint. Here's what I've gone through so far on a fresh install of Linux Mint.

At first it fails and tells me to get automake and autoconf. I do that, try again:

lib/scryptenc/scryptenc.c:38:25: fatal error: openssl/aes.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
Makefile:524: recipe for target 'scrypt-scryptenc.o' failed
make[1]: *** [scrypt-scryptenc.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/pepe/Apps/masterpassword-cli/lib/scrypt'
Makefile:338: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Google tells me to get libssl-dev. Then:

In file included from mpw-tests-util.c:15:0:
mpw-tests-util.h:9:27: fatal error: libxml/parser.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

Google tells me to get libxml2 and libxml2-dev. Try again:

Building target: mpw-tests...
mpw-tests-util.o: In function `mpw_xmlTestCaseNode':
mpw-tests-util.c:(.text+0xc4): undefined reference to `xmlStrcmp'
mpw-tests-util.c:(.text+0x109): undefined reference to `xmlStrcmp'
mpw-tests-util.c:(.text+0x1a8): undefined reference to `xmlStrcmp'
mpw-tests-util.c:(.text+0x1ba): undefined reference to `xmlFree'
mpw-tests-util.c:(.text+0x1d0): undefined reference to `xmlFree'
mpw-tests-util.o: In function `mpw_xmlTestCaseString':
mpw-tests-util.c:(.text+0x270): undefined reference to `xmlNodeGetContent'
mpw-tests-util.o: In function `mpw_xmlTestCaseInteger':
mpw-tests-util.c:(.text+0x2af): undefined reference to `xmlFree'
/tmp/ccnb9W7G.o: In function `main':
mpw-tests.c:(.text+0x25): undefined reference to `xmlParseFile'
mpw-tests.c:(.text+0x2d): undefined reference to `xmlDocGetRootElement'
mpw-tests.c:(.text+0x67): undefined reference to `xmlStrcmp'
mpw-tests.c:(.text+0x24a): undefined reference to `xmlStrcmp'
mpw-tests.c:(.text+0x2a6): undefined reference to `xmlFree'
mpw-tests.c:(.text+0x2b6): undefined reference to `xmlFree'
mpw-tests.c:(.text+0x2c6): undefined reference to `xmlFree'
mpw-tests.c:(.text+0x2d6): undefined reference to `xmlFree'
mpw-tests.c:(.text+0x2e6): undefined reference to `xmlFree'
/tmp/ccnb9W7G.o:mpw-tests.c:(.text+0x2f6): more undefined references to `xmlFree' follow
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Here I get stuck. I see it installed at /usr/include/libxml2 and the build file appears to check in that directory.

If you tell me the rest of the prereqs I'm happy to submit a PR with install instructions for Ubuntu.

[crypdick]

Ok, so I tried deleting the files I got from http://masterpasswordapp.com/ and tried getting everything directly from the repo. When I build, different errors:

Building target: mpw...
mpw-types.c:15:20: fatal error: curses.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

Google says get libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev. Success!