On 8/6/2018 20:39 PM, Richard Laager via devel wrote:
As to which to use... It seems to me that it's advantageous to _not_ hard-code the version number whenever possible, as that makes the HOWTO resilient across upgrades. That would argue for ncurses-dev or libncurses-dev. On the other hand, plenty of things will change across distro upgrades, so it likely doesn't matter that much.
I just checked the default raspi lite image, and the following packages are part of the base:
ii libncurses5:armhf 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 armhf shared libraries for terminal handling ii libncursesw5:armhf 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 armhf shared libraries for terminal handling (wide character support) ii ncurses-base 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 all basic terminal type definitions ii ncurses-bin 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 armhf terminal-related programs and man pages ii ncurses-term 6.0+20161126-1+deb9u2 all additional terminal type definitions
If you enter 'apt-get install libncurses-dev', it automatically redirects the installation to libncurses5-dev -- so it would seem that your suggestion is indeed the correct path to take.
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