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   On 7/29/11 11:49 PM, Nicholas Boel  wrote:   
      
   > Actually, my question above was about building from source, and if there was   
   > anything I needed to install before I compiled MBSE, since for some reason,   
   > following the directions on the MBSE website gave me a failed compile.   
      
   Ah, that I can answer.  Yes, each of the different distributions require    
   some prerequisite packages to be installed prior to building.  Gentoo    
   has a whole list of things that need to be installed (cause nothing is    
   installed unless it is absolutely necessary get a basic system running).    
     Packages like,  zip, unzip, arj, unarj, telnetd, and so on and so    
   forth.  The readme has the required packages listed.   
      
   I see for Ubuntu (which is derived from Debian), that a similar list is    
   given:   
      
   Package		Provides   
   -------------------------------------------------------------   
   xinetd		Icoming TCP/IP networking.   
   libc6-dev	To allow compiling of programs.   
   libz-dev	To allow mailer zlib compression.   
   libbz2-dev	To allow mailer bz2 compression.   
   automake	To rebuild configure if needed.   
   telnetd		Telnet sessions to the bbs.   
   arj		ARJ archiver.   
   rar		RAR archiver.   
   lha		LHArc archiver.   
   arc		Arc archiver.   
   zoo		ZOO archiver.   
   lrzsz		Zmodem, Ymodem file transfers for the bbs (obsolete).   
   joe		External editor for the bbs.   
      
   Good Luck!   
      
      
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