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Update build instructions (#70)
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Gerrit Renker committed Oct 21, 2020
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Expand Up @@ -25,14 +25,17 @@ wavemon requires a Linux Kernel with wireless extensions enabled. If your Kernel
In addition, minimally the following are required:
* Netlink `libnl` at least version 3.2,
* including the Generic Netlink support (`libnl-genl`),
* ncurses development files (`libncurses5-dev`),
* ncurses development files (`libncursesw5-dev`),
* the `pkg-config` package.

On Debian/Ubuntu, this can be done using
```bash
apt-get -y install pkg-config libncurses5-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev
apt-get -y install pkg-config libncursesw5-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev
```

Please note the "w" in `libncursesw5-dev`, which stands for the _wide-character_ variant of ncurses.
This is required for [proper rendering on UTF-8 terminals](https://github.com/uoaerg/wavemon/issues/70).

## How to build

wavemon uses `autoconf`, so that in most cases you can simply run
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./config/bootstrap
```
(This requires a recent installation of `autotools`.)

## Bugs?

Send bug reports, comments, and suggestions by opening an issue on [github](https://github.com/uoaerg/wavemon/issues).

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