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1<sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
2
3<sect2>
4<title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
5
6<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../ncurses-&ncurses-version;-etip-2.patch
7patch -Np1 -i ../ncurses-&ncurses-version;-vsscanf.patch</userinput></screen></para>
8
9<para>Prepare Ncurses to be compiled:</para>
10
11<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared \
12&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--without-debug</userinput></screen></para>
13
14<para>Continue with compiling the package:</para>
15
16<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para>
17
18<para>Install the package:</para>
19
20<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>
21
22<para>Give the ncurses libraries executable permission:</para>
23
24<para><screen><userinput>chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&ncurses-version;</userinput></screen></para>
25
26<para>And fix up a library that shouldn't be executable at all:</para>
27
28<para><screen><userinput>chmod 644 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a</userinput></screen></para>
29
30<para>Move the libraries to the <filename>/lib</filename> directory,
31where they're expected to reside:</para>
32
33<para><screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5* /lib</userinput></screen></para>
34
35<para>Since the libraries have been moved to
36<filename>/lib</filename>, a few symlinks are currently pointing
37towards non-existing files. Recreate those symlinks:</para>
38
39<para><screen><userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
40ln -sf libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so</userinput></screen></para>
41</sect2>
42
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