On 10 Jan 2001, David Z Maze wrote: ->Christopher W Aiken <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ->CWA> I had libcurses problems when I tried to compile an application ->CWA> (pine 4.31 I think, can't remember). What I had to do was: ->CWA> ->CWA> cd /lib ->CWA> ln -sf libncurses.so.5.0 libncurses ->CWA> ->CWA> The compile/link was looking for "libncurses" and there was ->CWA> none. The symb link created by the above ln command worked. -> ->Don't do that by hand. Install the appropriate -dev package ->(libncurses-dev, probably) instead; it should install the needed ->header files, create that symbolic link, and possibly also install a ->static library. ->
I already have libncurses installed and STILL had to set up the symb link. # dpkg -l | grep ncurses ii libncurses4 4.2-9 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libncurses5 5.0-6.0potato1 Shared libraries for terminal handling ii libncurses5-de 5.0-6.0potato1 Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses ii ncurses-base 5.0-6.0potato1 Descriptions of common terminal types ii ncurses-bin 5.0-6.0potato1 Terminal-related programs and man pages ii ncurses-term 5.0-6.0potato1 Additional terminal type definitions -- Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA chris at cwaiken dot com, www.cwaiken.com Current O/S: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2_r2
