Re: libncurses4 nonexistence
On Sat 22 Jan 2000, Christopher C. Chimelis wrote:
> On Sat, 22 Jan 2000, Martin D Hock wrote:
>
> > Ok, I realize I've been posting a bit, and my posts have been fairly
> > nonconstructive, but this question is really killing me. What's the deal
> > with libncurses4 regarding its nonexistence? I've downloaded it (the
> > debian source stuff anyway) and tried to compile it, but it claims it
> > can't be compiled as a dynamic library. Is someone working on this? Are
> > all of the packages going to be converted to libncurses5 fairly soon?
> > Finally, is an older version of libncurses4 available, like one that would
> > satisfy the dependencies at least? The one from stable is just slightly
> > too old. I've scoured the net to the best of my ability but to no avail.
> > The only references on this list that I've seen are from March 1999 and
> > refer to problems with libc6.1. Some help would be very appreciated.
> > Thanks.
>
> I'm about to work on this again. It is VERY odd since one day, I uploaded
> libncurses4 debs and they were installed and the next day, they were
> totally gone from master. It was waaaay too weird. I've been trying to
> convert as many packages as possible, but it still won't be a
> substitution.
For the time being people can find the old version as
ftp://ftp.murphy.nl/pub/debian/alpha/libncurses4_4.2-3.4.deb
Paul Slootman
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