Enigma 1/2 BBS software: how to install from scratch on a vanilla
Linux box, recorded live so you can see how to resolve the various
dependency issues along the way! If you've been thinking about
installing it, here's the step-by-step way
reddit / bbs

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wts42 · 2020-08-15 05:09

Haven't viewed the video yet. But maybe you can add it to the enigma
documentation.

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gnu2tux · 2020-08-15 05:24

That's up to NuSkooler if he wants to let me put it on his site. I
have sent him a message on Twitter but I'm not sure if he got it.

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danav · 2020-08-15 14:09

Great -- thanks for putting this together

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NuSkooler · 2020-08-15 18:41

Just ran across this, very cool! I'm in a rush this moment so skipped
around slightly. I'd love to link this to the docs for sure!

BTW: Always install Node.js via something like NVM (which is what the
[install.sh](https://install.sh) script does). The reason npm and node
were not found was it wasn't in your PATH after. Probably need to beef
up the script for stuff like that -- but it's a pain since shells can
be so different. ...maybe at least a message at the end.

I spotted in the docs that it said 10.x still too. Really should be
12.x for current versions.

Anyway, nice work!

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gnu2tux · 2020-08-18 08:43

Thanks dude! And thanks for considering linking it in the docs. The
mistakes in the video are deliberate (well, at least from the point
that others may have the same troubles, and indeed someone I was
speaking to on Facebook had the same problems and used this video to
fix it, so that's good!)

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gnu2tux · 2020-08-18 08:44

Thanks !

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NuSkooler · 2020-08-20 15:52

Ah gotcha! I think the two main things I see:

* Confusion over Node.js installs (people apt-get or yum install vs
nvm/local installs)
* sqlite3 build fails (I see some people working around this by
installing a system version also, which is technically not right but
alas)

Very slick video though, thanks again! I'll get this linked up in the
docs!