On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 07:21, Daniel Burrows <dburr...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 09:39:13PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." > <b...@iguanasuicide.net> was heard to say: >> In <886fa7aa0905221547k21469037la882c5044a641...@mail.gmail.com>, Jason >> Filippou wrote: >> >The command 'man ncurses' brings up nothing (or, to be >> >more precise, an error message). When I connect to my department's linux >> >systems via ssh they appear to have the library installed since the relative >> >manpage is working. >> > >> >Which package would fit my needs best? >> >> libncurses-dev > > libncurses-dev is a virtual package -- you need libncurses5-dev.
He might also want libncursesw5-dev, if he needs to handle wide (multibyte) characters. Cheers, Kelly Clowers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
