Re: ncurses?

2019-07-03 Thread dickey
On Tuesday, July 2, 2019 at 8:30:04 PM UTC-4, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Try running script if the system is already installed then run each of > the problem commands then type exit. You'll get a file called > typescript which is ansi text that probably will get through the spam > filters if you inclu

Re: ncurses?

2019-07-03 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 05:45:32PM -0600, ghe wrote: > When I run one of these programs and 'ps aux' I see lynx or alsamixer or > aptitude, but no ncurses. I'm not sure what, if anything, that means. > But I expected to see ncurses. ncurses is a C library. A C program like lynx may be linked agai

Re: ncurses?

2019-07-03 Thread tomas
On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 05:45:32PM -0600, ghe wrote: > Buster, Supermicro 5036T (aka sbox), Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 according > to lspci, RME Hammerfall sound card [...] > The problem is that, on sbox, alsamixer and aptitude are badly displayed > -- alsamixer so bad that it's not usable. The ver

Re: ncurses?

2019-07-02 Thread andreimpopescu
On Ma, 02 iul 19, 17:45:32, ghe wrote: > Buster, Supermicro 5036T (aka sbox), Radeon HD 6450/7450/8450 according > to lspci, RME Hammerfall sound card [...] > The problem is that, on sbox, alsamixer and aptitude are badly displayed Apparently "sbox" is the host name (or how you refer to it). I

Re: ncurses?

2019-07-02 Thread Felix Miata
ghe composed on 2019-07-02 17:45 (UTC-0600): https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2019/07/msg00110.html It's been eons since I heard of any kind of trouble with ncurses. :-) sbox I'm not familiar with. :-( I have a Dell gfxcard on a Buster test box that may be the same as yours except for the b

Re: ncurses?

2019-07-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
Try running script if the system is already installed then run each of the problem commands then type exit. You'll get a file called typescript which is ansi text that probably will get through the spam filters if you include it in the body of your message and do not attach it. If the ansi can be

Re: ncurses problem

2018-09-29 Thread Grzesiek Sójka
On 9/29/18 9:14 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2018-09-29 11:02 +, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: On 9/28/18 9:44 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: Actually it is exactly the other way around. If LINES and COLUMNS are set in the environment, then the ncurses library will _not_ update the screen size upon recei

Re: ncurses problem

2018-09-29 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-09-29 11:02 +, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: > On 9/28/18 9:44 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: >> >> Actually it is exactly the other way around. If LINES and COLUMNS are >> set in the environment, then the ncurses library will _not_ update the >> screen size upon receiving SIGWINCH, and that causes

Re: ncurses problem

2018-09-29 Thread Grzesiek Sójka
On 9/28/18 9:44 AM, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2018-09-27 08:51 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:38:53PM +, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: Hi there, I compiled following test program: == #include #include [snip] It's supposed to show c

Re: ncurses problem

2018-09-28 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2018-09-27 08:51 -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:38:53PM +, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I compiled following test program: >> == >> #include >> #include > [snip] > >> It's supposed to show current window dimens

Re: ncurses problem

2018-09-27 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Wed, Sep 26, 2018 at 10:38:53PM +, Grzesiek Sójka wrote: > Hi there, > > I compiled following test program: > == > #include > #include [snip] > It's supposed to show current window dimension when resizing terminal > window. Unfortunately, dimension

Re: ncurses screen corruption and terminals

2016-06-12 Thread Felix Miata
Gene Heskett composed on 2016-06-12 19:54 (UTC-0400): mc has been around for north of 30 years I believe, actually dateing back to dos-2.0 days or before. MC is a 22 year old clone of Norton Commander for DOS (which at the time of NC birth was v3.2, prior to existence of extended HD partition

Re: ncurses screen corruption and terminals

2016-06-12 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 12 June 2016 17:13:19 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Sunday 12 June 2016 00:09:54 Joe Pfeiffer wrote: > > > cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz writes: > > > > On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 10:04:27PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > > > It seems obvi

Re: ncurses screen corruption and terminals

2016-06-12 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 12 June 2016 22:13:19 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > I can attest that Debian jessie's Konsole doesn't work quite right in > every situation with the "TERM=xterm" and Debian's terminfo, for > example. Gene is in fact using, or not using, Konsole-Trinity, not KDE-Konsole. Lisi

Re: Ncurses for touch screens?

2011-05-27 Thread Doug
On 05/27/2011 07:36 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:35:24AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: /snip/ Thanks for the advice. I did find a used O'Reilly book called Learning Python. Also, there is something called python-mpd client library in the Debian repository and I found a prog

Re: Ncurses for touch screens?

2011-05-27 Thread Nick Lidakis
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:35:24AM +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 08:55:36PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > > I was wondering if there was some kind of ncurses application or utility > > that > > would let you define simple ASCII buttons and when that button was pressed > > us

Re: Ncurses for touch screens?

2011-05-25 Thread Leonardo Ruoso
2011/5/25 Nick Lidakis > I was wondering if there was some kind of ncurses application or utility > that > would let you define simple ASCII buttons and when that button was pressed > using gpm or a touchscreen it would run a simple command. I tried searching > with apt-cache but nothing showed u

Re: Ncurses for touch screens?

2011-05-25 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 May 2011 20:55:36 -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > I was wondering if there was some kind of ncurses application or utility > that would let you define simple ASCII buttons and when that button was > pressed using gpm or a touchscreen it would run a simple command. I > tried searching with

Re: Ncurses for touch screens?

2011-05-25 Thread Darac Marjal
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 08:55:36PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote: > I was wondering if there was some kind of ncurses application or utility that > would let you define simple ASCII buttons and when that button was pressed > using gpm or a touchscreen it would run a simple command. I tried searching >

Re: Ncurses

2005-12-07 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello *, On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:59:52AM -0800, Matt Jerdonek wrote: > I'm trying to install Ncurses (for make menuconfig for > Linux build). When I type apt-get install Ncurses, > I'm told that Ncurses can't be found: Yep, there is no package that goes by this name. What you are searching fo

Re: ncurses for woody

2004-12-13 Thread Adam Aube
Joris Huizer wrote: > Gerald Waugh wrote: >> On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Steve Lamb wrote: >>>Gerald Waugh wrote: Well, I got make menuconfig to work, (required libncurses5-dev) but >>>Do you have the experimental stuff turned on? >> Not sure, how would I check? > make menuconfig >Code maturi

Re: ncurses for woody

2004-12-13 Thread Joris Huizer
Gerald Waugh wrote: On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Steve Lamb wrote: Gerald Waugh wrote: Well, I got make menuconfig to work, (required libncurses5-dev) but can't find the xfs file system option... Do you have the experimental stuff turned on? Not sure, how would I check? Thanks Gerald make menuconfig

Re: ncurses for woody

2004-12-12 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Gerald Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041212 22:29]: > Excuse me, but how do I install ncurses on a woody system. > I tried all the apt-get ?curses and libncurses, but no luck. > > Trying to run "make menuconfig" in the kernel-sources You need the -dev packages. Yours sincerely, Alexander si

Re: ncurses for woody

2004-12-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Gerald Waugh wrote: Not sure, how would I check? It is one of the first options in makeconfig. Well, at least it was when I last checked on the 2.4.x series. Not sure if it is in the 2.6.x series. Anyway normally it is right next to module support. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your

Re: ncurses for woody

2004-12-12 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Steve Lamb wrote: > Gerald Waugh wrote: > > >Well, I got make menuconfig to work, (required libncurses5-dev) but can't > >find the xfs file system option... > > > > > Do you have the experimental stuff turned on? Not sure, how would I check? Thanks Gerald -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: ncurses for woody

2004-12-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Gerald Waugh wrote: Excuse me, but how do I install ncurses on a woody system. I tried all the apt-get ?curses and libncurses, but no luck. What does "apt-cache search curses" or apt-cache search ncurses tell you? :) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm you

Re: ncurses for woody

2004-12-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Gerald Waugh wrote: Well, I got make menuconfig to work, (required libncurses5-dev) but can't find the xfs file system option... Do you have the experimental stuff turned on? -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connec

Re: ncurses for woody

2004-12-12 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Gerald Waugh wrote: > On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Gerald Waugh wrote: > > > > > Excuse me, but how do I install ncurses on a woody system. > > I tried all the apt-get ?curses and libncurses, but no luck. > > > > Trying to run "make menuconfig" in the kernel-sources > > further, I nee

Re: ncurses for woody

2004-12-12 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Sun, 12 Dec 2004, Gerald Waugh wrote: > > Excuse me, but how do I install ncurses on a woody system. > I tried all the apt-get ?curses and libncurses, but no luck. > > Trying to run "make menuconfig" in the kernel-sources further, I need to add xfs file system support, in case anyone can help

Re: ncurses with sarge

2004-10-21 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 19:54:46 +0930, Stef VK5HSX wrote: >I am trying to compile xfbb from source (rather than using deb binaries) >with sarge (Testing), howver, I get an error -DUSE_NCURSES when I try to >install them it wont let me using "apt-get install ncurses" I can't say your question is

Re: ncurses with sarge

2004-08-24 Thread Stef VK5HSX
On Tuesday 24 August 2004 20:57, Thomas Adam shared with us the following: > If you're compiling you want '-dev' packages, in your case, specifically > 'libncurses5-dev'. > > -- Thomas Adam Thanks for that .. I did apt-get install libncurses5-dev and it went and did what was required.. much appre

Re: ncurses with sarge

2004-08-24 Thread Thomas Adam
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:11:07PM +0930, Stef VK5HSX wrote: > Howdy.. I recently installed sarge (Testing) Debian installation, where I > have been setting things up as required. I am trying to compile a > applications, where with ./configure I get an error that it requires ncurses. > I tried "

Re: ncurses with sarge

2004-08-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:11:07PM +0930, Stef VK5HSX wrote: > Howdy.. I recently installed sarge (Testing) Debian installation, where I > have been setting things up as required. I am trying to compile a > applications, where with ./configure I get an error that it requires ncurses. > I tried "

Re: ncurses can't find libraries - THANKS

2003-02-01 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 12:20:05PM -0800, nate wrote: > Thomas H. George,,, said: > > I can't use make menuconfig to build a kernel as the setup fails with a > > message that ncurses can't find libraries. I have verified that > > ncurses-bin, ncurses-base, ncurses-term and libncurses5 are installe

Re: ncurses can't find libraries

2003-01-31 Thread Hubert Chan
> "Thomas" == Thomas H George,,, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Thomas> I can't use make menuconfig to build a kernel as the setup fails Thomas> with a message that ncurses can't find libraries. I have Thomas> verified that ncurses-bin, ncurses-base, ncurses-term and Thomas> libncurses5 are inst

Re: ncurses can't find libraries

2003-01-31 Thread nate
Thomas H. George,,, said: > I can't use make menuconfig to build a kernel as the setup fails with a > message that ncurses can't find libraries. I have verified that > ncurses-bin, ncurses-base, ncurses-term and libncurses5 are installed and > have even reinstalled them without solving the proble

Re: ncurses status

2003-01-01 Thread Larry Hunsicker
Many thanks to Colin Watson. After apt-get install libncurses5-dev, make menuconfig now works fine. Larry Hunsicker Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 09:21:55AM -0600, Larry Hunsicker wrote: > > Hi again, folks, and Happy New Year to all. > > Same to you! > > > I am now recompiling m

Re: ncurses status???

2003-01-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 09:21:55AM -0600, Larry Hunsicker wrote: > Hi again, folks, and Happy New Year to all. Same to you! > I am now recompiling my kernel. I tried to use make menuconfig, but > this failed with a message to the effect that ncurses was missing. Install libncurses5-dev. -- Co

Re: ncurses

2002-04-30 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ted Goodridge, Jr ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020429 22:46]: > What package has the header files/libs for ncurses? Generally speaking, the library development files follow the pattern -dev in this case, for libncurses5-dev Also, if you don't know exactly what you're looking for, try something like th

Re: ncurses

2002-04-30 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 22:04, Ted Goodridge, Jr wrote: > What package has the header files/libs for ncurses? > > Ted libncurses5-dev -- -Peace kid Scott Henson [EMAIL PROTECTED] "God's the ultimate playa, so naturally He's going to have some haters," rapper Ice Cube said. "But these haters n

Re: ncurses

2002-04-30 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Ted Goodridge, Jr" wrote: > > What package has the header files/libs for ncurses? libncurses5 shared libs libncurses5-dev headers/static libs You can use apt-cache to find this stuff out very easily. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: ncurses

2002-04-30 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:59:24PM -0500, Ted Goodridge, Jr wrote: > Which ncurses package for debian has the development headers and libs? > I installed bin, base, and term, which one am I missing? libncurses5-dev -- Eric G. Miller -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: ncurses

2002-04-30 Thread Tom Cook
On 0, "Ted Goodridge, Jr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which ncurses package for debian has the development headers and libs? > I installed bin, base, and term, which one am I missing? libncurses5-dev looks good to me. Tom -- Tom Cook Information Technology Services, The University of Adelaide

Re: ncurses

2002-04-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
I don't know about potato, but in woody it is libncurses5-dev. On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 05:59:24PM -0500, Ted Goodridge, Jr wrote: > Which ncurses package for debian has the development headers and libs? > I installed bin, base, and term, which one am I missing? > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: ncurses HeLP

2002-03-21 Thread Alan James
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 10:08:48AM -0600, Ronneil Camara wrote: > > And also, I am doing the traditional way of compiling the kernel, make > menuconfig, make dep clean modules_install bzImage > > Will this work on debian? It'll work but you might find it easier to: make menuconfig make-kpkg k

Re: ncurses HeLP

2002-03-21 Thread Billy Sneed
r make menuconfig. billy > > -Original Message- > > From: Billy Sneed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:03 AM > > To: Ronneil Camara > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: ncurses HeLP > > > >

RE: ncurses HeLP

2002-03-21 Thread Ronneil Camara
d me that curses.h was not found, then it brought me back to the prompt. > -Original Message- > From: Billy Sneed [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 10:03 AM > To: Ronneil Camara > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: ncurses HeLP &g

Re: ncurses HeLP

2002-03-21 Thread Billy Sneed
libncurses5-dev on an unstable box. billy Ronneil Camara wrote: > Hi guys, > > How are you doing? > > Anyways, what package should I install so that I will have curses.h file? > > Thanks. > > Neil > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Ncurses on PCs

2001-12-18 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
cuong tran wrote: >Hi, > > >I am taking C++ and Data Structures courses at San Francisco State and >most of my programs use ncurses. I understand that ncurses is a package >of functions in the UNIX library for use in C and C++ programs. Is there >any way I can download these funtions and use them

Re: Ncurses on PCs

2001-12-17 Thread Peter De Wachter
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 09:46:28PM -0500, dman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:12:34PM -0800, cuong tran wrote: > | Hi, > | > | > | I am taking C++ and Data Structures courses at San Francisco State and > | most of my programs use ncurses. I understand that ncurses is a package > | of functio

Re: Ncurses on PCs

2001-12-17 Thread dman
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 03:12:34PM -0800, cuong tran wrote: | Hi, | | | I am taking C++ and Data Structures courses at San Francisco State and | most of my programs use ncurses. I understand that ncurses is a package | of functions in the UNIX library for use in C and C++ programs. Is there | any

Re: Ncurses on PCs

2001-12-17 Thread burningclown
> And how can I install Linux and Windows on the same machine (how > difficult is it)? Making a dual boot Win and Linux machine isn't too hard. Depends a bit on how much HD space you have. And it may take a bit of tinkering, so making backups is a good idea. I say 'isn't too hard' because I

Re: ncurses user admin tool for debian?

2001-12-14 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
> I've tried linuxconf, but it does not create users with the same profile > than adduser . So I had problems with some permissions. > > Do you know why? > No sorry. I never used linuxconf for adding users.

Re: ncurses user admin tool for debian?

2001-12-14 Thread josep
> apt-get install linuxconf > linuxconf --text > I've tried linuxconf, but it does not create users with the same profile than adduser . So I had problems with some permissions. Do you know why? Thanks Josep

Re: ncurses user admin tool for debian?

2001-12-14 Thread Romuald DELAVERGNE
Le 2001.12.14 11:21, josep a écrit : > exists a non graphical user admin tool for debian using ncurses? > > I mean to add and delete users, manage groups, etc ... > using a menu but in text mode. > apt-get install linuxconf linuxconf --text

Re: ncurses

2001-09-23 Thread Bambang Purnomosidi D. P.
Hi, There are many ncurses packages available. Please take a look at this command output: apt-cache search ncurses I guess you will need ncurses-bin, ncurses-term, ncurses-base, and libncurses5 (maybe). -- bpdp On Monday 24 September 2001 11:23 am, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Hello > I'm try

Re: ncurses

2001-09-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:23:11AM +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Hello > I'm trying to compile a programm (iForth) that needs ncurses. > > apt-get install ncurses > Package ncurses has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a de

Re: ncurses / libncurses

2001-01-10 Thread John Galt
libncurses5-dev On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Benjamin Pharr wrote: >I can't use 'make menuconfig' when trying to use the kernel because ncurses >is not installed. I have tried: > >apt-get install ncurses >apt-get install libncurses >apt-get install libncurses-dev > >all with no luck. I'm not very fam

Re: ncurses / libncurses

2001-01-10 Thread ktb
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:29:25PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I can't use 'make menuconfig' when trying to use the kernel because ncurses > is not installed. I have tried: > > apt-get install ncurses > apt-get install libncurses > apt-get install libncurses-dev > > all with no luck. I'm no

Re: ncurses / libncurses

2001-01-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
>> all with no luck. I'm not very familiar with the Debian packaging system, >> so could someone help me out? Thanks! > > apt-get install libncurses5-dev > teach a man to fish. As I did in my mail, whenever answering a question here on debian-user, provide a way to find the answer, not just

Re: ncurses / libncurses

2001-01-10 Thread James Dietrich
On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 12:29:25PM -0600, Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I can't use 'make menuconfig' when trying to use the kernel because ncurses > is not installed. I have tried: > > apt-get install ncurses > apt-get install libncurses > apt-get install libncurses-dev > > all with no luck. I'm no

RE: ncurses / libncurses

2001-01-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 10-Jan-2001 Benjamin Pharr wrote: > I can't use 'make menuconfig' when trying to use the kernel because ncurses > is not installed. I have tried: > > apt-get install ncurses > apt-get install libncurses > apt-get install libncurses-dev you need libncurses5-dev apt-cache search ncurses also

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-15 Thread Bruce Sass
Joey, Why not accept "the sentence", "y", or "Y" as indicating an affirmative. Don't change the excessivly verbose prompt, except to add an indication that "y" would also work (hmm, maybe telling the user about the shortcut after the fact, so they know next time, would also work). The point gets m

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 08:20:33PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > > > There is a way to obsolete essential packages. Dpkg itself already handles > > this. If you install an essential package that conflicts with an already > > installed essential packag

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-15 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > There is a way to obsolete essential packages. Dpkg itself already handles > this. If you install an essential package that conflicts with an already > installed essential package, that package will be removed without any sort > of --force options. This i

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-15 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 04:59:46PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Package: apt > Version: 0.3.16 > > Konrad Mierendorff wrote: > > > You are about to do something potentially harmful > > > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, I understand this may be bad' > > > ?] > > > > I can't believe this one! Pr

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-15 Thread Joey Hess
Package: apt Version: 0.3.16 Konrad Mierendorff wrote: > > You are about to do something potentially harmful > > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, I understand this may be bad' > > ?] > > I can't believe this one! Programm behavior like this really sucks! > > One of the many small details th

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-14 Thread Konrad Mierendorff
Colin Watson wrote: > I must say, I love what apt does in these circumstances: > > WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed > This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! > ncurses-base > [...] > You are about to do something potentially harmful > To conti

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-14 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory T. Norris) wrote: >On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:33:25PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: >> After a recent upgrade of potato packages, ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 shows >> up as obsolete (no longer listed in Packages). However it is tagged as >> "essential" which prevents dpkg from remov

Re: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-14 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I did "dpkg --purge --force-remove-essential ncurses-base". All seems to be well! On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 12:33:25PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: > After a recent upgrade of potato packages, ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 shows > up as obsolete (no longer listed in Packages). However it is tagged as > "essent

RE: ncurses-base obsolete, but essential

2000-01-13 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 13-Jan-2000 Bob Nielsen wrote: > After a recent upgrade of potato packages, ncurses-base 4.2-3.4 shows > up as obsolete (no longer listed in Packages). However it is tagged as > "essential" which prevents dpkg from removing it in the normal fashion. > Should I force the removal? > it is safe

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-13 Thread Ingo Brueckl
Quoting Mike Stone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Looks like an ncurses bug. Works fine with the libncurses4-dev > package from slink. You're right, I compiled it with libncurses4 and my program starts, but unfortunately all the colors have gone. :-( Instead of colors, everything is bold now. I update

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-12 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Oct 12, 1998 at 11:54:14AM +0200, Ingo Brueckl wrote: > The following program, compiled with egcs 1.0.3, causes a segmentation > fault at the mvwinch statement: Why are you rehashing this on -user? You've already reported this problem as a bug, and as you can check in the bug log (http://w

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-12 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Ingo Brueckl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Package: ncurses3.4 > Version: 1.9.9g-8.8 > > The following program, compiled with egcs 1.0.3, causes a segmentation > fault at the mvwinch statement: Looks like an ncurses bug. Works fine with the libncurses4-dev package from slink. Mike Stone

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-12 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting M.C. Vernon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Do you not need to include stdio.h for getch? man getch. It's an ncurses function, not a std library function. Mike Stone

Re: ncurses segmentation fault

1998-10-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Ingo Brueckl wrote: > Package: ncurses3.4 > Version: 1.9.9g-8.8 > > The following program, compiled with egcs 1.0.3, causes a segmentation > fault at the mvwinch statement: > > #include > int main () > { > WINDOW *win; > initscr(); > refresh(); > win = newwin(0, 0,

Re: ncurses 4.2?

1998-07-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, 15 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > How can I install ncurses 4.2 without wrecking havoc on my system and > keeping everyting happy, dependencies and all? I would like to use a > beta release of taper that fixes a bug I am experiencing with large > archives and it needs at least ncu

Re: Ncurses bug?

1998-06-22 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Jun 19, 1998 at 04:51:07AM +, Pavel Andreew wrote: >My program use the Form library from Ncurses. It worked OK with > ncurses 1.1.9g-8, but not with 1.1.9g-8.5. I've done the non-maintainer releases 1.1.9g-8.1 through -8.5; I have no idea what caused this. I have archived your pro

Re: ncurses problem?

1997-08-14 Thread Brian Mays
Andrew Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Erik Andersen writes: > > I have found that with the newest rxvt (released within the last week I > > believe) it also messes up mutt, sets TERM to rxvt (which seems to break > > a few things that don't know about TERM=rxvt, and also messes up the > > sc

Re: ncurses problem?

1997-08-14 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Thu, 14 Aug 1997, Andrew Howell wrote: > Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 12:00:50 +0759 (WST) > From: Andrew Howell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Erik Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: Debian Users > Subject: Re: ncurses problem? > Resent-Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 04:15:

Re: ncurses problem?

1997-08-14 Thread Andrew Howell
Erik Andersen writes: > I have found that with the newest rxvt (released within the last week I > believe) it also messes up mutt, sets TERM to rxvt (which seems to break > a few things that don't know about TERM=rxvt, and also messes up the > screen for the kernel's menuconfig. Oh, and backspace

Re: ncurses problem?

1997-08-14 Thread Andrew Howell
Erik Andersen writes: > I have found that with the newest rxvt (released within the last week I > believe) it also messes up mutt, sets TERM to rxvt (which seems to break > a few things that don't know about TERM=rxvt, and also messes up the > screen for the kernel's menuconfig. Oh, and backspace

Re: ncurses problems

1996-09-21 Thread Matthew D Moss
>Has anyone else out there had trouble with ncurses? I've now run across at >least four separate failures, all related to using ncurses instead of >termcap: > >I have heard of a couple of other Debian users having similar ncurses >problems, but I've never heard of anyone having trouble with ncurs

Re: ncurses problems with xterm/rxvt

1996-05-06 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Carlos Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After upgrading to 1.1 I'm having two problems in rxvt/xterm. They >don't happen on the console. > >One is already mentioned here, that after a program that uses ncurses >is called, lines longer than the width of the xterm

Re: ncurses problems with xterm/rxvt

1996-05-06 Thread Rob Browning
> "C" == Carlos Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: C> One is already mentioned here, that after a program that uses C> ncurses is called, lines longer than the width of the xterm/rxvt no C> longer wrap. This happens with nvi, but also with ncftp. Is there a C> character sequence that can be

Re: ncurses problems with xterm/rxvt

1996-05-06 Thread Guy Maor
On Mon, 6 May 1996, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > One is already mentioned here, that after a program that uses ncurses > is called, lines longer than the width of the xterm/rxvt no longer > wrap. This happens with nvi, but also with ncftp. Is there a character > sequence that can be sent to restore th

Re: ncurses problems with xterm/rxvt

1996-05-06 Thread Austin Donnelly
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >After upgrading to 1.1 I'm having two problems in rxvt/xterm. They >don't happen on the console. > >One is already mentioned here, that after a program that uses ncurses >is called, lines longer than the width of the xterm/rxvt no longer >wrap. This happen