[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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