Enigma 1-2 BBS is a Bulletin Board System that is designed to run on modern operating systems. In this tutorial, we will be installing Enigma 1-2 BBS on the nixOS Latest distribution.
The first step is to install the nixOS latest distribution on your machine. You can find the installation instructions on the official website.
Before installing Enigma 1-2 BBS, we need to install some dependencies. Open a terminal and run the following command:
sudo nix-env -i curl buildPackages.gcc buildPackages.gnumake buildPackages.ncurses buildPackages.pkgconfig
Next, we need to download the Enigma 1-2 BBS files from the official website.
Open a terminal and run the following commands to download and extract the Enigma 1-2 BBS files:
cd ~
mkdir enigma
cd enigma
curl -L https://github.com/nuskooler/enigma-bbs/archive/main.tar.gz | tar xz --strip-components=1
Now, we can build Enigma 1-2 BBS using the following command:
make
To install Enigma 1-2 BBS, we need to run the following command:
sudo make install
This will copy the Enigma 1-2 BBS executable to the /usr/local/bin directory.
Before we can run Enigma 1-2 BBS, we need to configure it. Open the enigma-bbs.ini file in a text editor and make changes as per your needs. For example, you can change the name and sysop fields to your own name.
Now, we are ready to run Enigma 1-2 BBS. Open a terminal and run the following command:
enigma-bbs
This will start the Enigma 1-2 BBS server. You can now access your BBS using a telnet client.
In this tutorial, we have learned how to install Enigma 1-2 BBS on nixOS Latest distribution. We hope this tutorial was helpful. If you have any questions or queries, please leave a comment below.
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