Re: newest ncurses
Michael Alan Dorman writes ("Re: newest ncurses"):
> On Sun, 10 Dec 1995, Michael Alan Dorman wrote:
> > I'm now uploading ncurses-1.9.8a-2 & co. It is also available for ftp
> > from lot49.med.miami.edu:/pub/linux/ until it gets cleared at
> > ftp.debian.org.
>
> I forgot to mention that you will almost certainly have to use 'dpkg
> --purge --force-depends' on both ncurses-runtime and -developer, since
> the new packages now (correctly) conflict with the above, and some base
> packages depend on ncurses-runtime.
If you use dselect (or dpkg --remove without --force-depends) to
deselect the old packages, dpkg will automatically remove them when
the conflicting ones are installed (if they have the right Provides
lines).
> This may break those particular programs, since we have changed the
> search structure for terminfo entries in the new packages. You can
> correct this by symlinking the entries under /etc/terminfo to
> /usr/lib/terminfo.
Is it just me, or should that be /lib/terminfo ? I know that termcap
used to be in /etc, but I think we're agreed that that (like most of
termcap) was an aberration.
terminfo doesn't contain configuration files, so I don't think it
belongs in /etc.
Ian.
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