lfs-book/chapter06/ncurses-inst.xml

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<title>Installation of Ncurses</title>

<para>Install Ncurses by running the following commands:</para>

<para><screen><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 &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>cd /lib &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>mv *.a /usr/lib &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>chmod 755 *.5.2 &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>cd /usr/lib &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>ln -sf libncurses.a libcurses.a &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libcurses.so &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libform.so &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libpanel.so &amp;&amp;</userinput>
<userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libmenu.so</userinput></screen></para>
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