Proper ncurses package
Greetings,
To spice up a uni assignment I have the option to use the ncurses library. However, I'm not at all sure that anything related to it is installed in my Squeeze system, since the command 'man ncurses' brings up nothing (or, to be more precise, an error message). When I connect to my department's linux systems via ssh they appear to have the library installed since the relative manpage is working.
Here's what I get when I attempt to install the (otherwise non-existing) 'curses' package:
jason@debian:~$ sudo aptitude install curses
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Couldn't find package "curses". However, the following
packages contain "curses" in their name:
lib64ncurses5 libncurses5 libncurses-ruby1.8 libncurses-ruby1.9
libkaya-ncursesw-dev libcunit1-ncurses libcurses-perl libncurses-dev
irmp3-ncurses ncurses-base libncurses-gst libncursesw5-dbg
libncursesw5-dev ncurses-term pinentry-curses libcurses-ui-perl
ncurses-hexedit libcurses-ruby libcunit1-ncurses-dev libcurses-ruby1.8
lib64ncurses5-dev libcurses-widgets-perl libkaya-ncurses-dev
cmake-curses-gui weechat-curses libcurses-ocaml-dev libncurses-ruby
ncurses-runtime libncurses5-dbg libncurses5-dev libncursesw5
yorick-curses libconfig-model-cursesui-perl libcurses-ocaml ncurses-bin
ncurses-dev
Couldn't find package "curses". However, the following
packages contain "curses" in their name:
lib64ncurses5 libncurses5 libncurses-ruby1.8 libncurses-ruby1.9
libkaya-ncursesw-dev libcunit1-ncurses libcurses-perl libncurses-dev
irmp3-ncurses ncurses-base libncurses-gst libncursesw5-dbg
libncursesw5-dev ncurses-term pinentry-curses libcurses-ui-perl
ncurses-hexedit libcurses-ruby libcunit1-ncurses-dev libcurses-ruby1.8
lib64ncurses5-dev libcurses-widgets-perl libkaya-ncurses-dev
cmake-curses-gui weechat-curses libcurses-ocaml-dev libncurses-ruby
ncurses-runtime libncurses5-dbg libncurses5-dev libncursesw5
yorick-curses libconfig-model-cursesui-perl libcurses-ocaml ncurses-bin
ncurses-dev
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
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Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Reading task descriptions... Done
Which package would fit my needs best?
Thanks in advance,
Jason
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