Subj : Syncterm curses only, hel
To   : paulie420
From : Weatherman
Date : Wed Aug 19 2020 01:53:00

-=> paulie420 wrote to All <=-

 pa> @VIA: VERT/BEERS20
 pa> @MSGID: <5F3C0428.16819.dove-hlp@vert.synchro.net>
 pa> I know its a repeat but I searched high and low on Vert:

 pa> I made a Linux Mint box for a friend, and Syncterm will only load from
 pa> CLI in curses mode... the icon in 'start menu' tries to load and on
 pa> fail, shows nothing on screen. (Syncterm just quits in the background
 pa> because SDL fails.)

 pa> What do I need? SDL? Sdl dev?

 pa> I know this was answered; a google search shows text from the message I
 pa> needed, but I just searched on vert for 15 minutes... so I'm asking
 pa> again. :P

 pa> Thanks in advance, oh build gods.

Paulie,
	Try this script to install SyncTerm.  I'm not the guy who wrote it, but I AM
the guy who stole it.  ;)

#!/bin/bash

# To Install apps/libraries used to compile
echo "Preparing to install relevant libraries..."
sudo apt-get install wget libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev gcc libsdl1.2-dev

# To Pull source
echo "About to download the syncterm application source..."
wget http://syncterm.bbsdev.net/syncterm-src.tgz

# To extract tgz file
echo "Extracting the source now..."
tar xvzf syncterm-src.tgz

# Change directory to
echo "Change into the 'make' folder"
cd syncterm-$(date +%Y%m%d)/src/syncterm

# To get full path src
echo "Set st_path variable for the SRC_ROOT path..."
st_path=$(pwd | sed 's/\/syncterm$//g')

# Time to compile!
echo "Make SRC_ROOT with path: $st_path"
sudo make SRC_ROOT=$st_path

# Install SyncTerm
echo "Install SyncTERM..."
sudo make install

# Find out where Syncterm was installed
echo "Find out where SyncTERM installed"
which syncterm



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