Re: libncurses4 nonexistence
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.
C
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