[3be4d97] | 1 | <sect1 id="ch-system-ncurses" xreflabel="Ncurses">
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[793c2f7] | 2 | <title>Installing Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
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[576e206] | 3 | <?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html" dir="chapter06"?>
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[6370fa6] | 4 |
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[5888299] | 5 | <para>The Ncurses package contains libraries for the terminal-independent
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[17476c5] | 6 | handling of character screens.</para>
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[5888299] | 7 |
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[69276a94] | 8 | <screen>&buildtime; &ncurses-time;
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| 9 | &diskspace; &ncurses-compsize;</screen>
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[3554fa3a] | 10 |
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[5888299] | 11 | &aa-ncurses-down;
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[d0dfce4] | 12 | &aa-ncurses-dep;
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[73aedd1d] | 13 |
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| 14 | <sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <sect2>
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| 17 | <title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
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| 18 |
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[6eb73f0] | 19 | <para>Fix a minor problem related to the <filename>etip.h</filename> header
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| 20 | file:</para>
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[73aedd1d] | 21 |
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[6eb73f0] | 22 | <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../&ncurses-etip-patch;</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 23 |
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| 24 | <para>Now prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>
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| 25 |
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[c288d97] | 26 | <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared --without-debug</userinput></screen>
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[73aedd1d] | 27 |
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| 28 | <para>Compile the package:</para>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>Install the package:</para>
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| 33 |
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| 34 | <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | <para>Give the Ncurses libraries execute permissions:</para>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <screen><userinput>chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&ncurses-version;</userinput></screen>
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| 39 |
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| 40 | <para>And fix a library that shouldn't be executable:</para>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | <screen><userinput>chmod 644 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a</userinput></screen>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <para>Move the libraries to the <filename>/lib</filename> directory,
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| 45 | where they're expected to reside:</para>
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| 46 |
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| 47 | <screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5* /lib</userinput></screen>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <para>Since the libraries have been moved to
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| 50 | <filename>/lib</filename>, a few symlinks are currently pointing
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| 51 | towards non-existing files. Recreate those symlinks:</para>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <screen><userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
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| 54 | ln -sf libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so</userinput></screen>
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| 55 | </sect2>
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[6370fa6] | 56 |
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[5888299] | 57 | &aa-ncurses-shortdesc;
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| 58 | &aa-ncurses-desc;
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| 59 |
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[6370fa6] | 60 | </sect1>
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| 61 |
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