Subj : Re: Installing MBSE?
To   : Jeff Smith
From : Niels Haedecke
Date : Tue Oct 16 2018 01:14 pm

Jeff Smith wrote to Vince:
JS> Hello There,
JS> 
JS> I am attempting to install MBSE on a Linux Mint PC. The user mbse already 
JS> exists on the PC as does the /home/mbse directory. When running "sudo bash 
JS> SETUP.sh" I get the following:
JS> 
JS> "Press ENTER to start the basic checks 
JS> *** User 'mbse' already exists on this system ***
JS> *** SETUP aborted ***"
JS> 
JS> It is easier to previously create the user and then install MBSE but the 
JS> MBSE installer aborts if it sees a preexisting  user/home directory. Is 
JS> there an option to force MBSE to install to the existing home directory?

I'm currently setting up MBSE as a future replacement for my current BBS
software. When testing and preparing the new system, I ran into the same
problem. And sicne I did not have any content in the system at that time, I
went around that issue by simply deleting the user with userdel -r (actually, 
 deleted both, the mbse user as well as the bbs group). 

However, If you already have custom menus, screens and content in your system
you should (of course) *not* delete the existing user.
        

    Greetings, Niels Haedecke

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