On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 06:23:11AM +0200, Robert Epprecht wrote: > Hello > I'm trying to compile a programm (iForth) that needs ncurses. > > apt-get install ncurses > Package ncurses has no available version, but exists in the database. > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents > of sources.list > E: Package ncurses has no installation candidate If you're trying to compile against the ncurses library, just do apt-get install libncurses5-dev You can use apt-cache search ncurses or dpkg -l '*' | grep ncurses to figure out package names. -- Nathan Norman - Staff Engineer | A good plan today is better Micromuse Ltd. | than a perfect plan tomorrow. mailto:nnorman@micromuse.com | -- Patton
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