"Chris B." wrote: > > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > that has been posted to aus.computers.linux as well. > > Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm using debian 3. When i do: > ... > > Well, ncurses 5.2 is installed. How can i test it other ways? > > On Debian most library packages named "foo" contain just the run-time > shared libraries, not the header files and shared library linker > stubs; the missing parts are in "foo-dev". > > To actually compile software that needs ncurses, you will need to > install "ncurses-dev", as well as the base ncurses package.
dpkg -l *ncurses* shows libncurses5, libncurses5-dev, ncurses-base (5.2), ncurses-bin (5.2), and ncurses-term (5.2) installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]