Re: shared library problem on 2.2
On Sun, Nov 26, 2000 at 12:36:47PM -0500, Tom Emerson wrote:
> > You need to install a package providing the symlink necessary for linking.
> > Try apt-get install libncurses5-dev.
>
> I've (re-)installed all of the ncurses packages (or at least I thought
> I had, and the symlinks are there in /usr/lib), so the symlinks are
> there. It still doesn't work, unfortunately.
>
> Nevertheless, I'll give it a try! Thanks.
You need libncurses.so symlink (notice how there's no version number), and
libncurses5-dev provides it.
> > > Any and all help is appreciated: I've never had a problem like this on
> > > other Linux installations, and I'm a bit confused.
> >
> > That's because you had the necessary packages installed :)
>
> One could ask why this just doesn't "work" out of the box.
That link, ncurses header files and the static library are separated
because most users won't need to compile anything against ncurses.
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