Re: Problem with ncurses since 01/02/2000 apt-get dist-upgrade

[ferret@phonewave.net]

I just had this problem a couple hours ago, actually, on my Potato box.
I'm not sure what happened to break it (was working fine just a few days
ago) but a purge of all *curses*-dev packages and then a reinstall of
libncurses5-dev did the trick. Also let me remove a couple `legacy'
packages.

BTW, WTH does bash depend on the ncurses in `oldlibs'?

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, John Pearson wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 04, 2000 at 12:28:01AM -0500, Todd Suess wrote
> > I recently did a apt-get dist-upgrade on Jan 2nd, which updated ncurses to
> > version 5.0.   I didn't notice any problems at first, but I went to build a
> > custom version of Nethack and noticed that it failed to compile with curses
> > errors.  In examining the directorys, I found the following.  During the update
> > to curses5 all these links were changed in my /usr/include directory.
> > 
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 Jan  2 20:54 curses.h -> ../curses.h
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            8 Jan  2 20:54 eti.h -> ../eti.h
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Jan  2 20:54 form.h -> ../form.h
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Jan  2 20:54 menu.h -> ../menu.h
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           12 Jan  2 20:54 ncurses.h -> ../ncurses.h
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           10 Jan  2 20:54 panel.h -> ../panel.h
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root            9 Jan  2 20:54 term.h -> ../term.h 
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           12 Jan  2 20:54 termcap.h -> ../termcap.h
> > lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           11 Jan  2 20:54 unctrl.h -> ../unctrl.h
> > 
> > All of these are broken symlinks, and with a little furthur testing I have
> > confirmed that no program that requires curses will now build sucessfully on my
> > potato system.   Has anyone else ran into this problem, and is there a
> > suggested fix?  With so many programs using curses now days, this seems to be
> > a serious problem.
> > 
> 
> Disclaimer: I'm running slink, and have never used the potato ncurses.
> 
> In slink, /usr/include/ncurses is a symlink to '.'; if this is a 
> real directory in the ncurses5 package and that package installs links
> to ../*.h in /usr/include/ncurses, you may get something like you
> describe.
> 
> If you're feeling brave, try:
>  # rm /usr/include/ncurses
>  # dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/ncurses5-dev*.deb
> 
> 
> Good luck,
> 
> 
> John P.
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