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

 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

---
� Synchronet � FuNToPiA BBS - telnet://funtopia.synchro.net:3023 ssh:3022