Brings back memories of running “The Upper Room BBS” and “007 BBS” as a teenager in the late 80’s as a SYSOP. Those were fond memories, of having someone dial into your computer and making online friends from across the country sometimes.
I think now though, you can just Telnet into different BBS’s still.
Do you listen to Linux Unplugged podcast? They just mentioned this lol
chmod +x ./install.sh
./install.sh
Hmm usually not a secure practice to do this
What’s the alternative to doing this? Is it safer to read the script first and then execute it as
sh ./install.sh?
Those instructions are from the official docs, and install.sh comes from the source repo. It’s an annoying script (it basically runs apt, npm, make, on your behalf…thanks, I can do that myself), but if you’re trusting the repo source to begin with, I don’t think it’s any less secure.
It’s a good idea. I recommend it.
As long as you follow the instructions you should be okay.
