Re: Unable to install libncurses5-dev

[Robert Vangel <vangelr@rfgt.net>]

Please keep discussion on-list. Thanks.

Abdul Taha wrote:
>  > Have you done an apt-get update? What's the contents of 
> /etc/apt/sources.list?
>
> Yes, done apt-get update. Contents of sources.list:
>
> deb http://debian.blueyonder.co.uk/ stable main
> deb-src http://debian.blueyonder.co.uk/ stable main
> deb http://security.debian.org/ stable/updates main
>
> > sarge & etch have 5.4-4 while sid has 5.4-8, which is making me a bit 
> > suspicious of what is inside there. Had you manually installed any 
> > ncurses5 deb's previously?
>
> I've not installed any versions of ncurses manually. Only recently
> installed debian in my laptop using the 2.4.27 kernel.


#dpkg -l libncurses5

What version?

#apt-get install libncurses5-dev (as opposed to ncurses-dev)

Results?

Can you download libncurses5 & libncurses5-dev deb's and install them manually?

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