Enigma 1-2 BBS is an open-source terminal-based bulletin board system that runs on modern platforms, including Linux. In this tutorial, we will show you how to install Enigma 1-2 BBS on Debian Latest.
Before we begin, we need to ensure that our Debian system has the following prerequisites:
You can install these by running the following command:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y gcc g++ libncurses-dev git
Clone the Enigma BBS repository by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/nuskooler/enigma-bbs.git
Change into the enigma-bbs directory:
cd enigma-bbs
Run the makefile to build Enigma BBS:
make -f posix.mak
Run the BBS in debug mode:
./bbs.x
Enigma BBS should now be running on your Debian system! You can connect to it via your terminal emulator software or via telnet.
Enigma 1-2 BBS is a robust bulletin board system that runs on modern platforms such as Linux. In this tutorial, we showed you how to install Enigma BBS on a Debian Latest system. Now that you have it up and running, you can customize the BBS to suit your needs and preferences.
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