Re: missing curses?
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 09:10:55 +0100, Dominic Blythe wrote:
> i tried installing MySQL the other day, and configure stopped with the
> message "no curses" - the previous three or four lines of output were
> "looking for tgetenv" here and "looking for tgetenv" there...
Any particular reason you're compiling it from source rather than using the
Debian packages?
> how can i tell if i've got no curses library,
You need to install the apropriate -dev (development files) package.
> and can i just get the ncurses/libcurses package and install it without
> impacting on my system
Yes.
> (which is Corel, which is, I think, Slink)?
Corel is slink-based. Get the "libncurses4-dev" package from
dists/stable/main/binary-i386/devel/ .
HTH,
Ray
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