Subj : Complie errors with Ubunt
To   : Smartyhall
From : Digital Man
Date : Mon Aug 01 2005 01:39 pm

  Re: Complie errors with Ubunt
  By: Smartyhall to Deuce on Fri Jul 29 2005 11:26 pm

 >  >  > I've used SBBS on and off over the past few years, and I have succesfu
 >  >  > compiled on several Linux distros before. However, I just recently swi
 >  >  > Ubuntu: Linux for Humans. I had to install CVS and several GCC compone
 >  >  > manually via the Synaptic pakage manager. Synaptic claims that curses 
 >  >  > installed, but there is no curses.h file anywhere. (I did, however, di
 >  >  > curses.so file.) I think this is the cause of my compile difficulties,
 >  >
 >  > Sounds like the old ncurses/cusrses hell that so many distros have happen
 >  > locate the file ncurses.h (probobly /usr/include) change to the directory
 >  > create a symlink like so:
 >  >
 >  > ln -s ncurses.h curses.h
 >  >
 > After much fiddleing... I finally dowloaded and build ncurses-5.5. This seem
 > to have resolved my issues, as I was able ot build SBBS and its accoutrments
 > this last go.

Good.

 > I still, however, have a slight problem: I cannot seem to
 > remember where to change my QWK ID from MYBBS to what it aught be. 

SCFG->Message Options

 > Also, the
 > menus all look odd on both of my systems. (I think this is just due to Ubunt
 > and its peculear choice of character encodings -- my other system is a Mac; 
 > intend to play with X-term in hopes of getting something that looks nicer.)

Try http://syncterm.bbsdev.net instead.

                                                  digital man

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