Subj : Re: How do you edit msg f
To   : Deuce
From : Mindsurfer
Date : Thu Oct 23 2025 11:25:00

  Re: Re: How do you edit msg f
  By: Deuce to Mindsurfer on Thu Oct 23 2025 03:45:50

 >> syncdraw started here with an libncurses error. not sure if i want to
 >> investigate how to fix that. maybe missing or incompatible library.

 De> Generally it should only start in curses mode if there wasn't the xlib-dev
 De> package (or whatever your distro calls it).

 De> SyncDraw uses the same output library as the Synchronet tools like scfg
 De> (and SyncTERM), so if SyncDraw isn't working, other Synchronet stuff will
 De> break too.

 De> I am curious what the actual error was though.

when downloading the syncdraw binaries i got this error

../syncdraw: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open
shared object file: No such file or directory

but when i cloned the repository and compiled syncdraw from source via make, it just works perfectly fine.

Mindsurfer

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