Subj : Re: Installing MBSE?
To : Jeff Smith
From : Niels Haedecke
Date : Tue Oct 16 2018 01:14 pm
Jeff Smith wrote to Vince:
JS> Hello There,
JS>
JS> I am attempting to install MBSE on a Linux Mint PC. The user mbse already
JS> exists on the PC as does the /home/mbse directory. When running "sudo bash
JS> SETUP.sh" I get the following:
JS>
JS> "Press ENTER to start the basic checks
JS> *** User 'mbse' already exists on this system ***
JS> *** SETUP aborted ***"
JS>
JS> It is easier to previously create the user and then install MBSE but the
JS> MBSE installer aborts if it sees a preexisting user/home directory. Is
JS> there an option to force MBSE to install to the existing home directory?
I'm currently setting up MBSE as a future replacement for my current BBS
software. When testing and preparing the new system, I ran into the same
problem. And sicne I did not have any content in the system at that time, I
went around that issue by simply deleting the user with userdel -r (actually,
deleted both, the mbse user as well as the bbs group).
However, If you already have custom menus, screens and content in your system
you should (of course) *not* delete the existing user.
