[Coco] Drivewire for Linux

Tim Fadden t.fadden at cox.net
Wed Jun 10 19:36:17 EDT 2009


John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 06:43:37PM -0400, Steven Hirsch wrote:
>   
>> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009, Tim Fadden wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Sure, Easy till he gets something like this:
>>>       
>
>   
>>> cc -g -DLINUX -c -o drivewire.o ../source/drivewire.c
>>> ../source/drivewire.c:18:20: error: curses.h: No such file or directory
>>>       
>> Fair enough.  Raw builds from tarballs and/or CVS checkout rarely assert  
>> that you have the correct packages to support the build.  On Ubuntu:
>>
>> $ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
>>
>> should do the trick.
>>     
>
> Similarly, for a Fedora installation:
>
> 	sudo yum install ncurses-devel
>
> Hth!
>
> John
>
> P.S.  If there is interest, I could produce a Fedora package for this...?
>   
Being a Multivue lover, I used the "add/remove packages" gui in 
Mandriva, and did a search for curses, checked off the one I wanted, and 
then installed it from there.

:-)

Tim





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