lfs-book/chapter06/ncurses.xml

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<sect1 id="ch-system-ncurses" xreflabel="Ncurses" role="wrap">
<title>Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
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<indexterm zone="ch-system-ncurses"><primary sortas="a-Ncurses">Ncurses</primary></indexterm>

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<title>Installation of Ncurses</title>

<para>Prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared --without-debug</userinput></screen>

<para>Compile the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>

<para>Install the package:</para>

<screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

<para>Give the Ncurses libraries execute permissions:</para>

<screen><userinput>chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&ncurses-version;</userinput></screen>

<para>Now fix a library:</para>

<screen><userinput>chmod 644 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a</userinput></screen>

<para>Move the libraries to the <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory:</para>

<screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5* /lib</userinput></screen>

<para>Recreate some symlinks:</para>

<screen><userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
ln -sf libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so</userinput></screen>
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<sect2 id="contents-ncurses" role="content"><title>Contents of Ncurses</title>

<para>See testing</para>

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