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02/19/2005 10:16:42 PM (19 years ago)
Author:
Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>
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Trunk is now identical to Testing

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  • chapter06/ncurses.xml

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    44  %general-entities;
    55]>
    6 <sect1 id="ch-system-ncurses" xreflabel="Ncurses" role="wrap">
     6<sect1 id="ch-system-ncurses" role="wrap">
    77<title>Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
    88<?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html"?>
    … …  
    1111
    1212<sect2 role="package"><title/>
     13<para>The Ncurses package contains libraries for terminal-independent
     14handling of character screens.</para>
    1315
    1416<segmentedlist>
    … …  
    1820</segmentedlist>
    1921
     22<segmentedlist>
     23<segtitle>Ncurses installation depends on</segtitle>
     24<seglistitem><seg>Bash, Binutils, Coreutils, Diffutils,
     25Gawk, GCC, Glibc, Grep, Make, and Sed</seg></seglistitem>
     26</segmentedlist>
    2027</sect2>
    2128
    … …  
    3138<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
    3239
     40<para>This package does not come with a test suite.</para>
     41
    3342<para>Install the package:</para>
    3443
    … …  
    3948<screen><userinput>chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&ncurses-version;</userinput></screen>
    4049
    41 <para>Now fix a library:</para>
     50<para>Fix a library that should not be executable:</para>
    4251
    4352<screen><userinput>chmod 644 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a</userinput></screen>
    4453
    45 <para>Move the libraries to the <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory:</para>
     54<para>Move the libraries to the <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory,
     55where they are expected to reside:</para>
    4656
    4757<screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5* /lib</userinput></screen>
    4858
    49 <para>Recreate some symlinks:</para>
     59<para>Because the libraries have been moved, a few symlinks are pointing to
     60non-existent files. Recreate those symlinks:</para>
    5061
    5162<screen><userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
    … …  
    5667<sect2 id="contents-ncurses" role="content"><title>Contents of Ncurses</title>
    5768
    58 <para>See testing</para>
     69<segmentedlist>
     70<segtitle>Installed programs</segtitle>
     71<segtitle>Installed libraries</segtitle>
     72<seglistitem><seg>captoinfo (link to tic), clear, infocmp, infotocap (link to tic),
     73reset (link to tset), tack, tic, toe, tput, and tset</seg>
     74<seg>libcurses.[a,so] (link to libncurses.[a,so]), libform.[a,so], libmenu.[a,so],
     75libncurses++.a, libncurses.[a,so], and libpanel.[a,so]</seg></seglistitem>
     76</segmentedlist>
     77
     78<variablelist><bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
     79<?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
     80
     81<varlistentry id="captoinfo">
     82<term><command>captoinfo</command></term>
     83<listitem>
     84<para>Converts a termcap description into a terminfo description</para>
     85<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses captoinfo"><primary sortas="b-captoinfo">captoinfo</primary></indexterm>
     86</listitem>
     87</varlistentry>
     88
     89<varlistentry id="clear">
     90<term><command>clear</command></term>
     91<listitem>
     92<para>Clears the screen, if possible</para>
     93<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses clear"><primary sortas="b-clear">clear</primary></indexterm>
     94</listitem>
     95</varlistentry>
     96
     97<varlistentry id="infocmp">
     98<term><command>infocmp</command></term>
     99<listitem>
     100<para>Compares or prints out terminfo descriptions</para>
     101<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses infocmp"><primary sortas="b-infocmp">infocmp</primary></indexterm>
     102</listitem>
     103</varlistentry>
     104
     105<varlistentry id="infotocap">
     106<term><command>infotocap</command></term>
     107<listitem>
     108<para>Converts a terminfo description into a termcap description</para>
     109<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses infotocap"><primary sortas="b-infotocap">infotocap</primary></indexterm>
     110</listitem>
     111</varlistentry>
     112
     113<varlistentry id="reset">
     114<term><command>reset</command></term>
     115<listitem>
     116<para>Reinitializes a terminal to its default values</para>
     117<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses reset"><primary sortas="b-reset">reset</primary></indexterm>
     118</listitem>
     119</varlistentry>
     120
     121<varlistentry id="tack">
     122<term><command>tack</command></term>
     123<listitem>
     124<para>The terminfo action checker; it is mainly used to test the
     125accuracy of an entry in the terminfo database</para>
     126<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tack"><primary sortas="b-tack">tack</primary></indexterm>
     127</listitem>
     128</varlistentry>
     129
     130<varlistentry id="tic">
     131<term><command>tic</command></term>
     132<listitem>
     133<para>The terminfo entry-description compiler that translates a
     134terminfo file from source format into the binary format needed for the
     135ncurses library routines. A terminfo file contains information on the
     136capabilities of a certain terminal</para>
     137<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tic"><primary sortas="b-tic">tic</primary></indexterm>
     138</listitem>
     139</varlistentry>
     140
     141<varlistentry id="toe">
     142<term><command>toe</command></term>
     143<listitem>
     144<para>Lists all available terminal types, giving the primary name and
     145description for each</para>
     146<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses toe"><primary sortas="b-toe">toe</primary></indexterm>
     147</listitem>
     148</varlistentry>
     149
     150<varlistentry id="tput">
     151<term><command>tput</command></term>
     152<listitem>
     153<para>Makes the values of terminal-dependent capabilities available to
     154the shell; it can also be used to reset or initialize a terminal or
     155report its long name</para>
     156<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tput"><primary sortas="b-tput">tput</primary></indexterm>
     157</listitem>
     158</varlistentry>
     159
     160<varlistentry id="tset">
     161<term><command>tset</command></term>
     162<listitem>
     163<para>Can be used to initialize terminals</para>
     164<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses tset"><primary sortas="b-tset">tset</primary></indexterm>
     165</listitem>
     166</varlistentry>
     167
     168<varlistentry id="libcurses">
     169<term><filename class="libraryfile">libcurses</filename></term>
     170<listitem>
     171<para>A link to <filename>libncurses</filename></para>
     172<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libcurses"><primary sortas="c-libcurses">libcurses</primary></indexterm>
     173</listitem>
     174</varlistentry>
     175
     176<varlistentry id="libncurses">
     177<term><filename class="libraryfile">libncurses</filename></term>
     178<listitem>
     179<para>Contains functions to display text in many complex ways on a
     180terminal screen; a good example of the use of these functions is the
     181menu displayed during the kernel's <command>make menuconfig</command></para>
     182<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libncurses"><primary sortas="c-libncurses">libncurses</primary></indexterm>
     183</listitem>
     184</varlistentry>
     185
     186<varlistentry id="libform">
     187<term><filename class="libraryfile">libform</filename></term>
     188<listitem>
     189<para>Contains functions to implement forms</para>
     190<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libform"><primary sortas="c-libform">libform</primary></indexterm>
     191</listitem>
     192</varlistentry>
     193
     194<varlistentry id="libmenu">
     195<term><filename class="libraryfile">libmenu</filename></term>
     196<listitem>
     197<para>Contains functions to implement menus</para>
     198<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libmenu"><primary sortas="c-libmenu">libmenu</primary></indexterm>
     199</listitem>
     200</varlistentry>
     201
     202<varlistentry id="libpanel">
     203<term><filename class="libraryfile">libpanel</filename></term>
     204<listitem>
     205<para>Contains functions to implement panels</para>
     206<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses libpanel"><primary sortas="c-libpanel">libpanel</primary></indexterm>
     207</listitem>
     208</varlistentry>
     209</variablelist>
    59210
    60211</sect2>
    61212
    62213</sect1>
     214
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