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  • Re: Installing syncTERM on linux Mint 21.1 cinnamon

    From Rob Swindell@1:103/705 to Christian Sacks on Wed Aug 9 11:18:15 2023
    Re: Re: Installing syncTERM on linux Mint 21.1 cinnamon
    By: Christian Sacks to Dan Clough on Wed Aug 09 2023 03:10 pm

    On 21 Jun 2023, Dan Clough said the following...

    Re: Re: Installing syncTERM on linux Mint 21.1 cinnamon

    I made an install script ages ago that should work for a handful of different linux variants;

    https://erb.pw/how-to-install-syncterm-for-linux-from-source/

    Hope it helps.

    That's cool. Maybe consider changing this line in that script to not use sudo? sudo make SRC_ROOT=$st_path

    root access should not be necessary for *building* syncterm, only for the *install* command.
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    digital man (rob)

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  • From Christian Sacks@2:250/5 to Rob Swindell on Wed Aug 9 20:31:27 2023
    On 09 Aug 2023, Rob Swindell said the following...

    That's cool. Maybe consider changing this line in that script to not use sudo? sudo make SRC_ROOT=$st_path

    root access should not be necessary for *building* syncterm, only for the *install* command.

    Ah good point, thanks for the tip. Much appreciated! =)

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  • From Christian Sacks@2:250/5 to Rob Swindell on Wed Aug 9 20:38:27 2023
    On 09 Aug 2023, Christian Sacks said the following...

    That's cool. Maybe consider changing this line in that script to not sudo? sudo make SRC_ROOT=$st_path

    root access should not be necessary for *building* syncterm, only for *install* command.

    Ah good point, thanks for the tip. Much appreciated! =)

    I've just modified the script, thank you muchly =)

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