Re: trouble with curses.h
Hi,
thanx for the tip...............actually some weeks back i had used sarge
for some package upgrade...........at that point i must have installed
libncurses5 from sarge............after that i had gone back to
stable...................hence today morning when i was trying to install
libncurses5-dev it was trying to install libncurses5-dev compatible with
the sarge version of libncurses5 (aka 5.4-4).............but since there
were no apt sources in my sources.list for sarge, it was giving this
error...................after your mail i understood what was
wrong.........i included a sarge source and then the upgrade went fine!
thanx
cheers!
abhishek.
> rawat@iucaa.ernet.in writes:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I have debian 3.0 woody on a linux box..........
>> i am getting the following error while complining a program...........
>>
>> menkar >> make
>> cc -c galfit.c
>> galfit.c:15: curses.h: No such file or directory
>> make: *** [galfit.o] Error 1
>>
>> i undersatnd that i need to install ncurses-dev............when i try
>> using apt-get i get the following error.............
>>
>> menkar:/home/abhi# apt-get install ncurses-dev
>> Reading Package Lists... Done
>> Building Dependency Tree... Done
>> Note, selecting libncurses5-dev instead of ncurses-dev
>> Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
>> requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
>> distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
>> or been moved out of Incoming.
>>
>> Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
>> the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
>> that package should be filed.
>> The following information may help to resolve the situation:
>>
>> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>> libncurses5-dev: Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.2.20020112a-7) but 5.4-4 is
>> to be installed
>> E: Broken packages
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Is this a bug?
>> i am NOT using an unstable distribution!
>
> Apt tries to install libncurses5-dev from testing/unstable, so most
> likely your /etc/apt/sources.list file is not set up correctly. Make
> sure it refers to stable, but not testing or unstable. Then issue the
> command
>
> apt-get update && apt-get install libncurses5-dev
>
> Martin
>
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