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     1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
     2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
     3  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
     4  %general-entities;
     5]>
    16<sect1 id="ch-system-ncurses" xreflabel="Ncurses">
    2 <title>Installing Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
    3 <?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html" dir="chapter06"?>
     7<title>Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
     8<?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html"?>
    49
    5 <para>The Ncurses package contains libraries for the terminal-independent
     10<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses"><primary sortas="a-Ncurses">Ncurses</primary></indexterm>
     11
     12<para>The Ncurses package contains libraries for terminal-independent
    613handling of character screens.</para>
    714
    8 <screen>&buildtime; &ncurses-time;
    9 &diskspace; &ncurses-compsize;</screen>
     15<screen>&buildtime; 0.6 SBU
     16&diskspace; 27 MB</screen>
    1017
    11 &aa-ncurses-down;
    12 &aa-ncurses-dep;
     18<para>Ncurses installation depends on: Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
     19Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, Sed.</para>
    1320
    14 <sect2><title>&nbsp;</title><para>&nbsp;</para></sect2>
     21
    1522
    1623<sect2>
    … …  
    3340<screen><userinput>chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&ncurses-version;</userinput></screen>
    3441
    35 <para>And fix a library that shouldn't be executable:</para>
     42<para>Now fix a library that shouldn't be executable:</para>
    3643
    3744<screen><userinput>chmod 644 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a</userinput></screen>
    … …  
    4249<screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5* /lib</userinput></screen>
    4350
    44 <para>Now the libraries have been moved, a few symlinks are pointing to
     51<para>Because the libraries have been moved, a few symlinks are pointing to
    4552non-existent files. Recreate those symlinks:</para>
    4653
    … …  
    4956</sect2>
    5057
    51 &aa-ncurses-shortdesc;
    52 &aa-ncurses-desc;
     58
     59<sect2 id="contents-ncurses"><title>Contents of Ncurses</title>
     60
     61<para><emphasis>Installed programs</emphasis>: captoinfo (link to tic), clear,
     62infocmp, infotocap (link to tic), reset (link to tset), tack, tic, toe, tput
     63and tset</para>
     64
     65<para><emphasis>Installed libraries</emphasis>: libcurses.[a,so] (link to
     66libncurses.[a,so]), libform.[a,so], libmenu.[a,so], libncurses++.a,
     67libncurses.[a,so], libpanel.[a,so]</para>
     68
     69</sect2>
     70
     71<sect2><title>Short descriptions</title>
     72
     73<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses captoinfo"><primary sortas="b-captoinfo">captoinfo</primary></indexterm>
     74<para id="captoinfo"><command>captoinfo</command> converts a termcap description into a
     75terminfo description.</para>
     76
     77<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses clear"><primary sortas="b-clear">clear</primary></indexterm>
     78<para id="clear"><command>clear</command> clears the screen, if this is possible.</para>
     79
     80<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses infocmp"><primary sortas="b-infocmp">infocmp</primary></indexterm>
     81<para id="infocmp"><command>infocmp</command> compares or prints out terminfo
     82descriptions.</para>
     83
     84<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses infotocap"><primary sortas="b-infotocap">infotocap</primary></indexterm>
     85<para id="infotocap"><command>infotocap</command> converts a terminfo description into
     86a termcap description.</para>
     87
     88<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses reset"><primary sortas="b-reset">reset</primary></indexterm>
     89<para id="reset"><command>reset</command> reinitializes a terminal to its default
     90values.</para>
     91
     92<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tack"><primary sortas="b-tack">tack</primary></indexterm>
     93<para id="tack"><command>tack</command> is the terminfo action checker. It is mainly
     94used to test the correctness of an entry in the terminfo database.</para>
     95
     96<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tic"><primary sortas="b-tic">tic</primary></indexterm>
     97<para id="tic"><command>tic</command> is the terminfo entry-description compiler.
     98It translates a terminfo file from source format into the binary format needed
     99for the ncurses library routines. A terminfo file contains information on the
     100capabilities of a certain terminal.</para>
     101
     102<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses toe"><primary sortas="b-toe">toe</primary></indexterm>
     103<para id="toe"><command>toe</command> lists all available terminal types, for each
     104giving its primary name and its description.</para>
     105
     106<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tput"><primary sortas="b-tput">tput</primary></indexterm>
     107<para id="tput"><command>tput</command> makes the values of terminal-dependent
     108capabilities available to the shell. It can also be used to reset or initialize
     109a terminal, or report its long name.</para>
     110
     111<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tset"><primary sortas="b-tset">tset</primary></indexterm>
     112<para id="tset"><command>tset</command> can be used to initialize terminals.</para>
     113
     114<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libncurses"><primary sortas="c-libncurses*">libncurses*</primary></indexterm>
     115<para id="libncurses"><command>libncurses*</command> contains functions to display text in
     116many complicated ways on a terminal screen. A good example of the use of these
     117functions is the menu displayed during the kernel's make menuconfig.</para>
     118
     119<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libform"><primary sortas="c-libform*">libform*</primary></indexterm>
     120<para id="libform"><command>libform*</command> contains functions to implement forms.</para>
     121
     122<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libmenu"><primary sortas="c-libmenu*">libmenu*</primary></indexterm>
     123<para id="libmenu"><command>libmenu*</command> contains functions to implement menus.</para>
     124
     125<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libpanel"><primary sortas="c-libpanel*">libpanel*</primary></indexterm>
     126<para id="libpanel"><command>libpanel*</command> contains functions to implement panels.</para>
     127
     128</sect2>
     129
     130
    53131
    54132</sect1>
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