[plug] Ncurses-devel for Mandrake 10

[Michael]

So far nobody has pointed out the obvious... Its asking for 
libncurses-devel meaning its looking for the header files, not the 
libraries. Aside from that, type urpmi libncurses5-devel and thats it.

Regards
Michael Collard

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, simon wrote:

> Maybe Im showing MY noob status, but I fail to see how a symlink will
> help.....
>
> Unless the kernel source is looking for ncurses.so and not libncurses.so?
>
> Just install libncurses-devel, and then install the kernel source with
> --nodeps or equivalent.
>
> Probably just bad packaging.
>
>
> Innis Cunningham (innisc at hotmail.com) wrote:
>>
>> Thanks Shayne for the explanation I will give it a try keeping
>> you warning in mind.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Innis
>>
>>   Shayne O'Neill writes
>>>
>>>
>>> Aha! These are fun.
>>>
>>> Basically a symbolic link is a bit like the shortcuts in windows, but they
>>> are actually useful.
>>>
>>> Basically if you have a file or a directory in /home/rara/thisfile.txt
>>> you can type in ln /home/rara/thisfile.txt /var/www/thisfile.txt -s and it
>>> will appear for all practical purposes as if the file is simultaneously in
>>> both directories but in reality its still only in /home/rara . if you edit
>>> it in /var/www its also edited in /home/rara, because its the same file,
>>> just living in 2 or more places.
>>>
>>> You can do this with directories too. I use this sometimes if I run out of
>>> space for a directory in one drive, I'll move it to another drive then
>>> 'symlink' it to where its supposed to be, and it'll appear to most things
>>> as if its in the old place when infact its on the new drive.
>>>
>>> Caveat: Too many symlinks make for a messy system, so use them sparingly.
>>>
>>> neato indeed.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ok Jim I guess I am about to show my noob status here.
>>>> What is a symbolic link and how do I make it.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks again
>>>>>
>>>>> HTH
>>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Innis
>>>>
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