On Fri 09 Mar 01, 11:16 AM, Mytho X said:
> Hi,
>
> Sorry I have not replied sooner work has had me swamped during the day
> and at night. libncurses (I put this at the begining on purpose) did
> the trick (thank you Peter).
cool. it /should/ be put into the debian faq; the question pops up from
time to time on the debian-user mailinglist.
come to think of, maybe i'll send a bug report to debian. libncurses5-dev
should be recommended by the kernel-source package. currently, the package
description says that you need libncurses-dev, but someone installing via
apt-get won't see this (you'll see it on dselect or capt). a recommendation
is different from listing the package requirement in the description of
kernel-source*.
henry, what do you think? am i being too nitpicky?
> Yes, this did the trick. When I was searching for ncurses5-dev I saw
> libncurses5-dev and did not associate it with what I was looking for.
it's definitely misleading. the ncurses package itself only provides
terminfo data. the dev package provides the header files and static libs.
i guess in an anal sort of way, that's the way it should be, even though it
invites confusion. that's one of the things i like about debian. even
though at times it causes mass-confusion, when you finally know what the
answer is, it really does make a lot of sense.
makes it harder for the debian-newbie, but makes it waaaaay easier for
people more experienced with debian.
distros like redhat and mandrake are kind of the opposite with all their
non-standard config files and interfaces. net-cfg is the best interfaces
i've ever seen, but when you're having trouble, it's nice to know exactly
what's going on behind-the-scenes.
and FORGET the boot up sequence for mandrake 7.2 and corel. nice eye-candy,
but i saw mike simons struggle with the corel bootup for almost 3 hours.
pete
