Re: Difficulty in installing ncurses.

2009-08-01 Thread Glen Barber 
michael green wrote: 
 7.2-RELEASE #0. Generic kernel. Full installation from DVD.
 
 
 I'm trying to install ncurses because I want to run FoxPro Unix, which 
 expects a terminfo database.
 

Perhaps terminfo(5) can help?

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Difficulty in installing ncurses.

2009-07-31 Thread michael green 
7.2-RELEASE #0. Generic kernel. Full installation from DVD.


I'm trying to install ncurses because I want to run FoxPro Unix, which expects 
a terminfo database.

I did this:

# cd /usr/src/contrib/ncurses [Enter]
# ./configure [Enter]

The last line of output is

config.status: error: cannot find input file: test/Makefile.in

I contacted the authors and I got a reply stating: It looks as if the 
source-tree is incomplete  and an alternative approach to installation.

How should I proceed? Thanks in advance.



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Re: Difficulty in installing ncurses.

2009-07-31 Thread Roland Smith 
On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 11:20:27AM +, michael green wrote:
 7.2-RELEASE #0. Generic kernel. Full installation from DVD.
 
 I'm trying to install ncurses because I want to run FoxPro Unix, which
 expects a terminfo database.
 
You don't have to install it. It is already installed because it is part
of the base system.
 
Roland
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