Re: libcurses/libncurses problem

[Giulio Morgan <mickle@panix.com>]

"Christopher W. Aiken" <cwaiken@telerama.com> writes:

> On 10 Jan 2001, David Z Maze wrote:
> 
> ->Christopher W Aiken <cwaiken@telerama.com> writes:
> ->CWA> I had libcurses problems when I tried to compile an application
> ->CWA> (pine 4.31 I think, can't remember).  What I had to do was:
> ->CWA>
> ->CWA> cd /lib
> ->CWA> ln -sf libncurses.so.5.0 libncurses
> ->CWA>
> ->CWA> The compile/link was looking for "libncurses" and there was
> ->CWA> none.  The symb link created by the above ln command worked.
> ->
> ->Don't do that by hand.  Install the appropriate -dev package
> ->(libncurses-dev, probably) instead; it should install the needed
> ->header files, create that symbolic link, and possibly also install a
> ->static library.
> ->
> 
> I already have libncurses installed and STILL had to set up the symb link.
> 
> # dpkg -l | grep ncurses
> ii  libncurses4    4.2-9          Shared libraries for terminal handling
> ii  libncurses5    5.0-6.0potato1 Shared libraries for terminal handling
> ii  libncurses5-de 5.0-6.0potato1 Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses
> ii  ncurses-base   5.0-6.0potato1 Descriptions of common terminal types
> ii  ncurses-bin    5.0-6.0potato1 Terminal-related programs and man pages
> ii  ncurses-term   5.0-6.0potato1 Additional terminal type definitions
> 
> --
> Christopher W. Aiken, Scenery Hill, Pa, USA

Thank you Christopher and David.

I have tried a combination of you suggestions, with no luck.

First, I tried to install libncurses5-Dev, but apt complained as follows:

Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
  libncurses5-dev: Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.0-6.0potato1) but 5.0-8 is to be
  installed
E: Sorry, broken packages

I then created the  synb link manually per Christopher's suggestion, and this
had no effect (so I rm'ed the "libncurses" file). Then,

# dpkg -l | grep ncurses
ii  libncurses4    4.2-9          Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  libncurses4-de 4.2-9          Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses
ii  libncurses5    5.0-8          Shared libraries for terminal handling
ii  ncurses-base   5.0-8          Descriptions of common terminal types
ii  ncurses-bin    5.0-8          Terminal-related programs and man pages
ii  ncurses-term   5.0-8          Additional terminal type definitions
ii  ncurses3.4     1.9.9g-8.11    Video terminal manipulation - shared librari
ii  typist         2.3.1-1        A simple ncurses typing tutor

Sorry for asking what must be an obvious question, but...Does it appear from
the directory structure included in the original post (included again below for
convenience) that there is something obviously wrong -
/lib/libcurses.so.1.0.0xo? 

Thanks for your time and help
 
-- 
Giulio Morgan
mickle@panix.com

from /lib
  root     root           18 Aug 26  1999 libcurses.so.1 -> libcurses.so.1.0.0
  root     root        52641 May 18  1995 libcurses.so.1.0.0xo
  root     root           19 Jul  5  2000 libtermcap.so.2 -> libtermcap.so.2.0.8
  root     root        10500 Feb  3  2000 libtermcap.so.2.0.8
  root     root       242644 Oct 30  1998 libncurses.so.3.4
  root     root       238700 Mar  5  2000 libncurses.so.4.2
  root     root           17 Nov 27 08:26 libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.0

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from /usr/lib
  root     root           12 Jul  5  2000 libcurses.a -> libncurses.a
  root     root           13 Jul  5  2000 libcurses.so -> libncurses.so
  root     root           20 Nov 25 22:59 libcurses.so.1 -> /lib/libncurses.so.5
  root     root       372674 Mar  5  2000 libncurses.a
  root     root           20 Jul  5  2000 libncurses.so -> /lib/libncurses.so.4

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