Curses6 can't be found on Debian 10; also need to validate installation process.

[unquietwiki]

Hey there @dmulder ; thank you for making this, I saw it on the Samba Wiki. Trying to set it up on a Debian 10 instance; I used the Ubuntu install commands and then had to figure out the right process just to get things to compile. The remaining hangup seems to be proper detection of libcurses6

Error

CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.13/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:137 (message):
  Could NOT find Curses6 (missing: CURSES6_LIBRARIES)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /usr/share/cmake-3.13/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:378 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  cmake/Modules/FindCurses6.cmake:25 (FIND_PACKAGE_HANDLE_STANDARD_ARGS)
  /opt/admin-tools/src/libyui/buildtools/LibyuiCommon.cmake:286 (FIND_PACKAGE)
  CMakeLists.txt:66 (FIND_LIB_DEPENDENCIES)

Install process (probably need to add this to the README, if you can tell me it's valid)

sudo apt install git build-essential
git clone https://github.com/suse-samba-tools/admin-tools.git
cd admin-tools
git checkout tags/1.0
git submodule init
git submodule update
autoreconf --install
./configure

Also tried loading ncurses-6.2 to /usr/local, but that didn't seem to help.

sudo apt install wget
wget https://invisible-island.net/datafiles/release/ncurses.tar.gz
tar xvg ncurses.tar.gz
cd ncurses && ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
make install

[dmulder]

Seems like I had a similar problem compiling on Ubuntu. Can't recall though.
I'll take a look at this tomorrow. Let me know if you make any progress in the meantime.

[dmulder]

@unquietwiki also, there is an AppImage, fyi. In case you want something up and running quicker.
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:dmulder:YaST:AppImage/admin-tools
(although it looks like the build is broken, at the moment, I'll have to look into this).

[unquietwiki]

Thanks for the quick reply! I might mess around with it more later, but any further attention today will be primarily on finishing my Samba Server install in general.

[unquietwiki]

@dmulder update for you of sorts: the AppImage has an interesting habit of quitting after attempts to do stuff with it. Might be related to the build issue you identified.

[dmulder]

@unquietwiki I fixed the appimage build and ran it on Debian 10. Everything seems to work except the gpmc, which is crashing for some reason. I'll have to do some investigation on that.

https://appimage.github.io/admin-tools/

[dmulder]

@unquietwiki if you checkout master and pull, I've fixed the curses error you were getting for Debian 10.

But you must run ./autogen.sh prior to running ./configure. The autogen.sh script does some hacky workarounds to make the build succeed.

[unquietwiki]

@dmulder your fixes got a lot farther this time, thanks! Got a new error, but it seems to be based on a yast dependency?

sudo apt install git build-essential
git clone https://github.com/suse-samba-tools/admin-tools.git
cd admin-tools
git submodule init
git submodule update
./autogen.sh
./configure
make install

make[8]: Nothing to be done for 'install-exec-am'.
/bin/bash /opt/admin-tools/install-sh -d /usr/local/include/YaST2
 /usr/bin/install -c -p -m 644 YCP.h /usr/local/include/YaST2/YCP.h
make[8]: Leaving directory '/opt/admin-tools/src/yast-core/libycp/src/include'
make[7]: Leaving directory '/opt/admin-tools/src/yast-core/libycp/src/include'
make[6]: Leaving directory '/opt/admin-tools/src/yast-core/libycp/src/include'
make[6]: Entering directory '/opt/admin-tools/src/yast-core/libycp/src'
  CXX      Bytecode.lo
  CXX      Import.lo
  CXX      Point.lo
In file included from Point.cc:49:
./include/ycp/Scanner.h:31:10: fatal error: FlexLexer.h: No such file or directory
 #include "FlexLexer.h"
          ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
make[6]: *** [Makefile:726: Point.lo] Error 1
make[6]: Leaving directory '/opt/admin-tools/src/yast-core/libycp/src'
make[5]: *** [Makefile:751: install-recursive] Error 1

[dmulder]

@unquietwiki You need to install libfl-dev.

[dmulder]

You're probably going to run into an error for symbol crypt_gensalt_rn next ;)
I'm working on that one now.

[dmulder]

@unquietwiki To get crypt_gensalt_rn, you'll need to install libxcrypt. I couldn't find this package for Debian 10, so I built one here: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/dmulder:/buster/Debian_10/
After installing the package, you'll need to reconfigure before building again.

[unquietwiki]

You're on the ball man! I'm getting that loaded now. (crosses fingers)

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[dmulder]

I also just added some build instructions to the readme, like you requested.

[dmulder]

Make sure you install libjemalloc2 libjemalloc-dev.

[unquietwiki]

Thanks! And yeah, that's exactly where it crashed just now. 😆

[dmulder]

Well, I'm out of here for the day now. So far yast-core has succeeded, and it's moved on to building libyui.
@unquietwiki let me know if you encounter more issues (I suspect there will be more). I'll look more at this tomorrow.
Let me know if you make any additional progress while I'm out!