lfs-book/chapter06/ncurses-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Ncurses</title>

<para>Before Ncurses is installed, the patch file needs to be unzipped.  Install Ncurses by running the following commands:</para>

<para><screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -F10 -i ../ncurses-&ncurses-version;-&ncurses-patch-version;.patch &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/lib \</userinput>
<userinput>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;--with-shared --disable-termcap &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>make &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para>

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