How to install

Below instructions were made for Ubuntu linux 18.04, but you can adopt it to any other *nix system easily.

Tested on:

Ubuntu 18.04 x64
Raspberry Pi 3B+, Raspbian Buster 32bit
Windows 10, Windows subsystem for Linux with Ubuntu 20.04

Installing on Windows 10

You will need to enable the inbuilt linux subsystem feature in Control Panel/Programs and features: enable-wsl

After reboot go to MS Store, and install Ubuntu: download-ubuntu

Select a linux user name, and a password: setup-ubuntu This username is your username inside the linux install. Your selected password is usually referred to as root or sudo password. You will be asked for this every time when you install something inside your linux subsystem.

Now you have a working linux command line. Copy/paste the below commands to the window:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjsoncpp-dev git cmake build-essential

You can continue with the steps in the linux install section. (You can skip the first 2 apt-get commands, because we already did it above ;)

Installing on Windows 8 and below

You can install linux on a virtual machine, check this video for details.

Installing on linux

Grab a terminal, and run these magical commands.

Install curl, jsoncpp, openssl, git:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libssl-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libjsoncpp-dev git

Install newest cmake:

This section is optional, if you get errors during the compilation of the bot, try to install the newest cmake. As I remember I had some issues with an earlier version on Uubuntu 18.04.

Currently we will install v3.17:

sudo apt-get purge cmake
mkdir ~/temp
cd ~/temp
wget https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.17.0/cmake-3.17.0.tar.gz
tar -xzvf cmake-3.17.0.tar.gz
cd cmake-3.17.0/
./bootstrap
make
sudo make install

It will take some time, get a coffee and relax ;) Finally, check your version: cmake --version

Clone terminalbot to your computer

git clone https://github.com/Deybacsi/terminalbot.git
cd terminalbot
git submodule init
git submodule update

Now you should configure your bot, and compile.