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    1111
    1212<sect2 role="package"><title/>
    13 <para>The Ncurses package contains libraries for terminal-independent
    14 handling of character screens.</para>
    1513
    1614<segmentedlist>
     
    2018</segmentedlist>
    2119
    22 <segmentedlist>
    23 <segtitle>Ncurses installation depends on</segtitle>
    24 <seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
    25 Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed</seg></seglistitem>
    26 </segmentedlist>
    2720</sect2>
    2821
     
    4639<screen><userinput>chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&ncurses-version;</userinput></screen>
    4740
    48 <para>Now fix a library that shouldn't be executable:</para>
     41<para>Now fix a library:</para>
    4942
    5043<screen><userinput>chmod 644 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a</userinput></screen>
    5144
    52 <para>Move the libraries to the <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory,
    53 where they're expected to reside:</para>
     45<para>Move the libraries to the <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory:</para>
    5446
    5547<screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5* /lib</userinput></screen>
    5648
    57 <para>Because the libraries have been moved, a few symlinks are pointing to
    58 non-existent files. Recreate those symlinks:</para>
     49<para>Recreate some symlinks:</para>
    5950
    6051<screen><userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
     
    6556<sect2 id="contents-ncurses" role="content"><title>Contents of Ncurses</title>
    6657
    67 <segmentedlist>
    68 <segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
    69 <segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
    70 <seglistitem><seg>captoinfo (link to tic), clear, infocmp, infotocap (link to tic),
    71 reset (link to tset), tack, tic, toe, tput and tset</seg>
    72 <seg>libcurses.[a,so] (link to libncurses.[a,so]), libform.[a,so], libmenu.[a,so],
    73 libncurses++.a, libncurses.[a,so], libpanel.[a,so]</seg></seglistitem>
    74 </segmentedlist>
    75 
    76 <variablelist><title>Short descriptions</title>
    77 
    78 <varlistentry id="captoinfo">
    79 <term><command>captoinfo</command></term>
    80 <listitem>
    81 <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses captoinfo"><primary sortas="b-captoinfo">captoinfo</primary></indexterm>
    82 <para>converts a termcap description into a terminfo description.</para>
    83 </listitem>
    84 </varlistentry>
    85 
    86 <varlistentry id="clear">
    87 <term><command>clear</command></term>
    88 <listitem>
    89 <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses clear"><primary sortas="b-clear">clear</primary></indexterm>
    90 <para>clears the screen, if this is possible.</para>
    91 </listitem>
    92 </varlistentry>
    93 
    94 <varlistentry id="infocmp">
    95 <term><command>infocmp</command></term>
    96 <listitem>
    97 <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses infocmp"><primary sortas="b-infocmp">infocmp</primary></indexterm>
    98 <para>compares or prints out terminfo descriptions.</para>
    99 </listitem>
    100 </varlistentry>
    101 
    102 <varlistentry id="infotocap">
    103 <term><command>infotocap</command></term>
    104 <listitem>
    105 <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses infotocap"><primary sortas="b-infotocap">infotocap</primary></indexterm>
    106 <para>converts a terminfo description into a termcap description.</para>
    107 </listitem>
    108 </varlistentry>
    109 
    110 <varlistentry id="reset">
    111 <term><command>reset</command></term>
    112 <listitem>
    113 <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses reset"><primary sortas="b-reset">reset</primary></indexterm>
    114 <para>reinitializes a terminal to its default values.</para>
    115 </listitem>
    116 </varlistentry>
    117 
    118 <varlistentry id="tack">
    119 <term><command>tack</command></term>
    120 <listitem>
    121 <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tack"><primary sortas="b-tack">tack</primary></indexterm>
    122 <para>is the terminfo action checker. It is mainly
    123 used to test the correctness of an entry in the terminfo database.</para>
    124 </listitem>
    125 </varlistentry>
    126 
    127 <varlistentry id="tic">
    128 <term><command>tic</command></term>
    129 <listitem>
    130 <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tic"><primary sortas="b-tic">tic</primary></indexterm>
    131 <para>is the terminfo entry-description compiler.
    132 It translates a terminfo file from source format into the binary format needed
    133 for the ncurses library routines. A terminfo file contains information on the
    134 capabilities of a certain terminal.</para>
    135 </listitem>
    136 </varlistentry>
    137 
    138 <varlistentry id="toe">
    139 <term><command>toe</command></term>
    140 <listitem>
    141 <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses toe"><primary sortas="b-toe">toe</primary></indexterm>
    142 <para>lists all available terminal types, for each
    143 giving its primary name and its description.</para>
    144 </listitem>
    145 </varlistentry>
    146 
    147 <varlistentry id="tput">
    148 <term><command>tput</command></term>
    149 <listitem>
    150 <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tput"><primary sortas="b-tput">tput</primary></indexterm>
    151 <para>makes the values of terminal-dependent
    152 capabilities available to the shell. It can also be used to reset or initialize
    153 a terminal, or report its long name.</para>
    154 </listitem>
    155 </varlistentry>
    156 
    157 <varlistentry id="tset">
    158 <term><command>tset</command></term>
    159 <listitem>
    160 <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tset"><primary sortas="b-tset">tset</primary></indexterm>
    161 <para>can be used to initialize terminals.</para>
    162 </listitem>
    163 </varlistentry>
    164 
    165 <varlistentry id="libncurses">
    166 <term><filename class="libraryfile">>libncurses*</filename></term>
    167 <listitem>
    168 <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libncurses"><primary sortas="c-libncurses*">libncurses*</primary></indexterm>
    169 <para>contains functions to display text in
    170 many complicated ways on a terminal screen. A good example of the use of these
    171 functions is the menu displayed during the kernel's <command>make menuconfig</command>.</para>
    172 </listitem>
    173 </varlistentry>
    174 
    175 <varlistentry id="libform">
    176 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libform*</filename></term>
    177 <listitem>
    178 <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libform"><primary sortas="c-libform*">libform*</primary></indexterm>
    179 <para>contains functions to implement forms.</para>
    180 </listitem>
    181 </varlistentry>
    182 
    183 <varlistentry id="libmenu">
    184 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libmenu*</filename></term>
    185 <listitem>
    186 <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libmenu"><primary sortas="c-libmenu*">libmenu*</primary></indexterm>
    187 <para>contains functions to implement menus.</para>
    188 </listitem>
    189 </varlistentry>
    190 
    191 <varlistentry id="libpanel">
    192 <term><filename class="libraryfile">libpanel*</filename></term>
    193 <listitem>
    194 <indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libpanel"><primary sortas="c-libpanel*">libpanel*</primary></indexterm>
    195 <para>contains functions to implement panels.</para>
    196 </listitem>
    197 </varlistentry>
    198 </variablelist>
     58<para>See testing</para>
    19959
    20060</sect2>
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