nzbget install on ubuntu server

I've just beefed up my home server a bit to replace some old (and gradually failing kit) as well as attempt to make the box a bit quieter. When setting up a new server every time I come around to installing nzbget I can never remember all the libraries which it needs. This isn't so much a how-to but a note to my future self on what I need to do. I've setup the box with a clean install of the 64 bit version of Ubuntu Server. I'm slowly adding all of the software which I use so there's not much that's already been installed.

First things first we need to get a copy of nzbget:
:> wget http://dfn.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/nzbget/nzbget-0.3.0.tar.gz

Then after untarring and changing to the new nzbget folder we can run the configure script and see what's missing:
:> ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -cchecking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for g++... no
checking for c++... no
checking for gpp... no
checking for aCC... no
checking for CC... no
checking for cxx... no
checking for cc++... no
checking for cl... no
checking for FCC... no
checking for KCC... no
checking for RCC... no
checking for xlC_r... no
checking for xlC... no
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... configure: error: C++ compiler cannot create executables
See `config.log' for more details.

Ah, we don't have a C compiler, I would have thought that it would have come as part of the default install, but nevermind:
:> sudo apt-get install g++

Now that we've got the compiler lets try again:
:> ./configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking for gawk... no
checking for mawk... mawk
checking whether make sets $(MAKE)... no
checking build system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for g++... g++
checking for C++ compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C++ compiler works... yes
...
checking libxml/tree.h usability... no
checking libxml/tree.h presence... no
checking for libxml/tree.h... no
configure: error: "libxml2 header files were not found."

Right, first missing package libxml2. I remember from previous installs that nzbget requires some development libraries, I too lazy to work out which ones so I'm just going to install them for each library:
:> sudo apt-get install libxml2-dev

Let's try running the configuration script again:
:> ./configure
...
checking ncurses.h usability... no
checking ncurses.h presence... no
checking for ncurses.h... no
checking ncurses/ncurses.h usability... no
checking ncurses/ncurses.h presence... no
checking for ncurses/ncurses.h... no
checking curses.h usability... no
checking curses.h presence... no
checking for curses.h... no
configure: error: Couldn't find curses headers (ncurses.h or curses.h).

After a quick google search for the appropriate package we're good to install it:
:> sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev

We then run through the same process for libpar2 and libsigc++-2.0:
:> ./configure
...
checking sigc++/type_traits.h usability... no
checking sigc++/type_traits.h presence... no
checking for sigc++/type_traits.h... no
configure: error: "libsigc++-2.0 header files were not found in /usr/include/sigc++-2.0."

:> sudo apt-get install libsigc++-2.0-dev

:> ./configure
...
checking libpar2/libpar2.h usability... no
checking libpar2/libpar2.h presence... no
checking for libpar2/libpar2.h... no
configure: error: "libpar2 header files were not found in /usr/include."

:> sudo apt-get install libpar2-0-dev

Once those two are installed we can run the configuration script again:
:> ./configure
...
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating config.h
config.status: executing depfiles commands

Excellent, we have everything that we need. Now we can run the makefile and install nzbget:
:> make
The program 'make' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install make
-bash: make: command not found

Well, we would if make was installed...
:> sudo apt-get install make

And try again:
:> make
/usr/bin/make all-am
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/neil/nzbget-0.3.0'
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/neil/nzbget-0.3.0'

:> sudo make install
[sudo] password for neil:
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/neil/nzbget-0.3.0'
test -z "/usr/local/bin" || mkdir -p -- "/usr/local/bin"
/usr/bin/install -c 'nzbget' '/usr/local/bin/nzbget'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `install-data-am'.

nzbget should now be successfully installed. All that's needed is to create a config file and add your settings:
:> cp nzbget.conf.example ~/.nzbget

:> vi ~/.nzbget

This probably isn't a complete run through of everything that's needed or might crop up, it's just what worked for me. We can put everything from above into a more sensible order and save ourselves running the configuration script so many times.

:> sudo apt-get install g++ libxml2-dev libncurses5-dev libsigc++-2.0-dev libpar2-0-dev make
:> ./configure
:> make
:> sudo make install