Subj : Re: Testing MBSE
To : Jeff Smith
From : Stephen Atkins
Date : Thu Mar 03 2016 08:48 am
Jeff Smith wrote to All:
JS> Hello There,
JS>
JS> In an attempt to test MBSE I intalled a Ubuntu user "mbse" and then loaded
JS> the SETUP.sh file. First thing it complained about was that user mbse
JS> already existed, then promptly aborted. It would seem to me that
JS> installing as the intended user of the program would be the logical and
JS> prudent way to proceed. Is there a procedure to avoid this setup behavior?
JS>
I have also run in to many little gotcha's over the last little while with
MBSE. I have found that Debian and it's variants are not the best environment
for MBSE. Then again Arch Linux is also not 100% supported either because of
the systemd scripts it uses. Either way I find the experience of setting up
MBSE is the funnest and most frustrating part of it. Once it's up and running
you don't have to pay much attention to it.
When I setup this Arch Linux box I already had my /opt/mbse directory and it
was populated with all my BBS files as I had been running it under Linux Mint
for a year. I ended up ignoring the setup script and just did the compile and
install from make. One thing I did find from installing on Mint was that
dependencies where hard to find. Getting all the little bits that where
missing took some time and research. Watch the ./configure output and try to
satisfy most of the missing dependancies. You can get them all (and you don't
want to as some interfer with others). I also get lots of warnings when
compiling but no hard errors. I also have issues after a successful compile
with segfaults under Mint but not with Arch.
Hope this helps.
Stephen
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