"Christopher W. Aiken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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 >
Christopher, I just wanted to say thanks for all your time and reply to your last post (not this one, I know). I have removed libncurses4-dev and installed (from unstable) libncurses5-dev - it turned out that a woody system could be partly in testing and partly in unstable - the relevant parts of my /lib and /usr/lib dirs now match yours exactly, including your manually created symb link, except I also have a lrwxrwxrwx 1 20 Nov 25 22:59 libcurses.so.1 -> /lib/libncurses.so.5 file in /usr/lib (which I don'y imagine is doing any harm),but I still can't get my app to run, so...I'll try to figure out something. Thanks again. -- Giulio Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
