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The knots you guys insist on twisting yourselves into is comical.
Ha! Touché. TBF this isn't a common problem as this is a particularly niche piece of software. Everything else I needed was easily installed via the Fedora package manager- click install and done. Turns out BBS emulators aren't plentiful in 2023 (⌐■_■)
As a note, when you can't find a package, go find the source, you can usually build and install in a couple commands. Its nice to use the package management of the distro, but most of the time, you could just install the deps and compile and be done with it.