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Re: ncurses with sarge



On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 08:11:07PM +0930, Stef VK5HSX wrote:
> Howdy..  I recently installed sarge (Testing) Debian installation, where I 
> have been setting things up as required. I am trying to compile a 
> applications, where with ./configure I get an error that it requires ncurses.
> I tried "apt-get install ncurses" and was told it was obsolete and not used 
> anymore. Is there a way around this or will I require ncurses source 
> compilation and install.?  Many thanks..
> -- 
> Regards - Stef VK5HSX
> 
> -= Support Open Source Software =-
Hi Stef,
if you are doing ./configure, I assume you are compiling software. In
this case you need a -dev packages.
libncurses5-dev - Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses
This should be it! Of course, I suggest seeing if is in debian or if it
is in .rpm and can be converted to debian use.
-Kev



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