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Building TQSL 2.5.7 from source for Linux

I had version tqsl-2.5.5 installed on my Ubuntu 20.04 desktop, but after a few months decided to upgrade to tqsl 2.5.7 by building from source since there was no package available.   The install notes included in tqsl-2.5.7.tar.gz are good for a seasoned linux developer but not so much for the casual user like me.   Assuming you have built other projects from source you should already have build-essentials installed.  To check - type in the following commend and confirm the output is similar (per the install notes, the exact version # do not have to match, this is just the version I have installed) $sudo apt-get install build-essential Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done build-essential is already the newest version (12.8ubuntu1.1).  Next you need to satisfy all build prerequisites to create the tqtqsl library under linux. TrustedQSL requires OpenSSL, expat, zlib, LMDB, wxWidgets and curl before you can build. All generic packag