This is a quick guide on building MPD from source on a headless Ubuntu system (n o gui) Some of the version numbers

might change, so this isn't fully a copy paste guide more of a how I did it example. Good Luck! sudo apt-get install checkinstall apt-build build-essential choose Medium Optimization when it asks answer yes to add line to sources.list satisfy dependiancies from the site http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/Dependencies Download Source Files (URL) wget *** make the configure file executible (sudo chmod +x configure) Get MP3 Dependancies ( http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libmp3lame0 ) ( http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/libmp3lame-dev ) wget http://ubuntu.mirror.iweb.ca//pool/multiverse/l/lame/libmp3lame0_3.98.2+deb ian-0ubuntu3_i386.deb wget http://ubuntu.mirrors.pair.com/archive//pool/multiverse/l/lame/libmp3lame-d ev_3.98.2+debian-0ubuntu3_i386.deb Install MP3 Dependancies sudo dpkg -i libmp3lame0_3.98.2+debian-0ubuntu3_i386.deb sudo dpkg -i libmp3lame-dev_3.98.2+debian-0ubuntu3_i386.deb sudo apt-get install libglib2.0-dev libtwolame-dev libflac-dev libshout3-dev lib mad0-dev faad2-dbg libogg-dev libaudiofile-dev libid3tag0 libid3-tools libvorbis -dev zlib-bin curl libcurl-ocaml-dev libpulse-dev libasound2-dev libsamplerat e0-dev ./configure --enable-alsa --enable-audiofile --enable-curl --enable-httpd-outpu t --enable-lame-encoder --enable-mad --enable-pulse --enable-shout --enable-vorb is-encoder Check for errors. If it completes the configure step, continue, if it fails, get your -dev packages and try again. If it completes the configure step, run make. make sudo checkinstall Change and enter any pertinant information that is needed. (recommend not to bui ld doc's they take a long time and are rarely needed ) MPD is now compiled, and installed on your system!