Thought it would be fun to get the old talk program working in Linux…no luck. It really shouldn’t be that hard. The live typing feature was memorable.
Ok, got it working…that was tough.
~$ sudo apt install inetutils-talk inetutils-talkd inetutils-inetd
remove the "#<off>#" in front of the "talk dgram..." line in the /etc/inetd,conf file.
~$ sudo mv /bin/inetutils-talk /bin/talk
~$ sudo /etc/init.d/inetutils-inetd restart
Ta'Da, working, at least on the same box.
