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  • Re: How do you edit msg f

    From Mindsurfer@mindsurfer@FUNTOPIA.remove-7a4-this to Deuce on Thu Oct 23 11:25:00 2025
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    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.

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

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

    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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  • From Deuce@deuce@BBSDEV.remove-7qy-this to Mindsurfer on Thu Oct 23 13:27:56 2025
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    Re: Re: How do you edit msg f
    By: Mindsurfer to Deuce on Thu Oct 23 2025 11:25 am

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

    Ah. Yeah, no two Linux distros are the same. :D

    Curious where you download the binaries from... was it the Gitlab pipeline, or the SyncDraw homepage (such as it is)?
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  • From Mindsurfer@mindsurfer@FUNTOPIA.remove-wr1-this to Deuce on Thu Oct 23 17:43:00 2025
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    Re: Re: How do you edit msg f
    By: Deuce to Mindsurfer on Thu Oct 23 2025 13:27:56

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

    Ah. Yeah, no two Linux distros are the same. :D

    Curious where you download the binaries from... was it the Gitlab pipeline, or the SyncDraw homepage (such as it is)?

    i think it was this one
    https://syncdraw.bbsdev.net/syncdraw-linux.tgz

    Mindsurfer

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  • From Deuce@deuce@BBSDEV.remove-dx3-this to Mindsurfer on Thu Oct 23 18:04:17 2025
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    Re: Re: How do you edit msg f
    By: Mindsurfer to Deuce on Thu Oct 23 2025 05:43 pm

    Curious where you download the binaries from... was it the Gitlab pipeline, or the SyncDraw homepage (such as it is)?

    i think it was this one
    https://syncdraw.bbsdev.net/syncdraw-linux.tgz

    Cool, I should really update that page and fix the nightly updates... it looks like they may be stale.
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