On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:10:55 +0100, Dominic Blythe wrote: > i tried installing MySQL the other day, and configure stopped with the > message "no curses" - the previous three or four lines of output were > "looking for tgetenv" here and "looking for tgetenv" there...
Any particular reason you're compiling it from source rather than using the Debian packages? > how can i tell if i've got no curses library, You need to install the apropriate -dev (development files) package. > and can i just get the ncurses/libcurses package and install it without > impacting on my system Yes. > (which is Corel, which is, I think, Slink)? Corel is slink-based. Get the "libncurses4-dev" package from dists/stable/main/binary-i386/devel/ . HTH, Ray -- LEADERSHIP A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with auto- destructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their own. - The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan