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Upgrade ncurses to 5.4

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