NULL mag Issue 02 15 Install Synchronet on a Raspberry Pi

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 · 3 years ago

  

Original post from: 
https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=181387 

Here are step-by-step instructions on building and installing Synchronet on  
a Raspbian computer (Raspberry Pi running Debian Linux OS). 

These instructions were created using a Raspberry Pi 3 Model B running  
Raspbian version 4.4.21: 

::instructions:: 
Get to a Terminal/command prompt (e.g. login via SSH or run the Terminal 
application from the PIXEL desktop). Login as your preferred user account to 
run the BBS software. 

These instructions install Synchronet (source code, executables,  
configuration, and data files) into a sub-directory named sbbs off of the  
home directory of the current user (e.g. /home/pi/sbbs if logged in as the  
user pi). If you wish to install into a different directory (e.g. /sbbs  
instead of ~/sbbs), then change the following commands as you see fit. 

Type each of these commands: 

sudo apt-get update 
sudo apt-get install cvs 
sudo apt-get install zip 
sudo apt-get install libnspr4-dev 
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev 
mkdir /sbbs 
cd /sbbs 
sudo wget http://cvs.synchro.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs. ... NUmakefile 
sudo make install SYMLINK=1 (wait for build to complete successfully) 
export SBBSCTRL=/sbbs/ctrl 
#To edit options and settings 
sudo /sbbs/exec/scfg  
#To run the BBS... 
sudo /sbbs/exec/sbbs