Subj : SBBS Installation question
To   : RickV
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Feb 06 2026 01:35 pm

  Re: SBBS Installation question
  By: RickV to Digital Man on Fri Feb 06 2026 09:36 am

 Ri> I have been wondering, on a new installation of Synchronet on Linux, do
 Ri> you have to install with simlink or can you just install with regular
 Ri> directories?

You don't have to build/install with symlinks.  This is the wiki page for *nix installation:

https://wiki.synchro.net/install:nix

In the "Updating" section on that page, it provides some example command lines, and there's a note that says "(replace symlinks with install if you prefer to copy executable and library files to your exec directory)":

2. Rebuild Synchronet (replace symlinks with install if you prefer to copy executable and library files to your exec directory):

$ cd /sbbs/repo/src/sbbs3; make RELEASE=1 symlinks

So in that command, you would do this:

$ cd /sbbs/repo/src/sbbs3; make RELEASE=1 install

Nightfox

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