Can not use interactive terminal when use Ubuntu Snap version

[Garfield550]

Minetest version

Minetest 5.4.1 (Linux)
Using Irrlicht 1.8.4
Using LuaJIT 2.1.0-beta3
BUILD_TYPE=Release
RUN_IN_PLACE=0
USE_CURL=1
USE_GETTEXT=1
USE_SOUND=1
USE_FREETYPE=1
STATIC_SHAREDIR="/share/minetest"
STATIC_LOCALEDIR="/share/locale"

OS / Hardware

Operating system: Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz

GPU model:
OpenGL version:

Summary

I installed Minetest from snap, and use it to run a Minetest server, but when I use --server --terminal command args, Minetest show an error message: ERROR[Main]: Cmd arg --terminal passed, but compiled without ncurses. Ignoring..

2022-05-25 10:19:58: WARNING[Main]: system-wide share not found at "/share/minetest"
2022-05-25 10:19:58: WARNING[Main]: system-wide share found at "/snap/minetest/1744/bin/../share/minetest"
2022-05-25 10:19:58: WARNING[Main]: Couldn't find a locale directory!
2022-05-25 10:19:58: ERROR[Main]: Cmd arg --terminal passed, but compiled without ncurses. Ignoring.

Steps to reproduce

sudo snap install minetest
minetest --server --terminal

[Garfield550]

Ref: snapcrafters/minetest#11

Hope can make ncurses builtin.

[rubenwardy]

Minetest needs to be compiled with ncurses to use this feature.

You have 2 options:

• Use another version, probably self-compiled. I don't think many distros ship Minetest with ncurses enabled
• Ask the snap maintainers to compile with ncurses

The Minetest snap is maintained by the Snap team, not by us, so you'll need to file an issue with them EDIT: I see you've linked to an existing issue

The snap version is also a year out-of-date

Closing as it's not a problem with us, let me know if you need any help compiling/etc

[Garfield550]

@rubenwardy Does Flatpack version had ncurses built-in or it contain Minetest Server? https://flathub.org/apps/details/net.minetest.Minetest

[rubenwardy]

Unfortunately not (source https://github.com/flathub/net.minetest.Minetest/blob/master/net.minetest.Minetest.yaml#L42 )

[Garfield550]

@rubenwardy I see a ppa at https://launchpad.net/~minetestdevs/+archive/ubuntu/stable, is it official?

[rubenwardy]

@rubenwardy I see a ppa at launchpad.net/~minetestdevs/+archive/ubuntu/stable, is it official?

That is official. I've just checked, it does include ncurses