Re: New Prerequisites
  By: Dumas Walker to Digital Man on Wed May 13 2020 11:43 am

 > Good morning,
 > I have identified a couple of packages which are prerequisites for compiling
 > synchronet on linux that you might want to add to the list:
 >
 > sudo
 > libcap2-bin

Thanks, but neither of those should be required for compiling synchronet on
linux.

 > recently added a new VM install for testing purposes and, upon attempting
 > to compile sbbs I received errors regarding these two packages being
 > missing.  I sure would have assumed that sudo would be included in even a
 > very base install of any distribution but I guess not!  :)

sudo is included in the instructions for *running* Synchronet or installing
packages, but you can (and I have) built sbbs without it.

the libcap stuff should be optional as well.

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