newxml/chapter06/ncurses.xml

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   3   <!ENTITY % ncurses-entities SYSTEM "../ent/ncurses.ent">
   4   %ncurses-entities;
   5 ]>
   6 <sect1 id="ch06-ncurses">
   7 <title>Installing Ncurses-&ncurses-version;</title>
   8 <?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html"?>
   9
  10 <screen>Estimated build time:           0.6 SBU
  11 Estimated required disk space:  27 MB</screen>
  12
  13 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../appendixa/ncurses-contents.xml"/>
  14
  15
  16 <xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="../appendixa/ncurses-deps.xml"/>
  17
  18
  19
  20 <sect2>
  21 <title>Installation of Ncurses</title>
  22
  23 <para>Fix a minor problem related to the <filename>etip.h</filename> header
  24 file:</para>
  25
  26 <screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../ncurses-&ncurses-version;-etip-2.patch</userinput></screen>
  27
  28 <para>Now prepare Ncurses for compilation:</para>
  29
  30 <screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared \
  31     --without-debug</userinput></screen>
  32
  33 <para>Compile the package:</para>
  34
  35 <screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen>
  36
  37 <para>Install the package:</para>
  38
  39 <screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>
  40
  41 <para>Give the Ncurses libraries execute permissions:</para>
  42
  43 <screen><userinput>chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&ncurses-version;</userinput></screen>
  44
  45 <para>And fix a library that shouldn't be executable:</para>
  46
  47 <screen><userinput>chmod 644 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a</userinput></screen>
  48
  49 <para>Move the libraries to the <filename>/lib</filename> directory,
  50 where they're expected to reside:</para>
  51
  52 <screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5* /lib</userinput></screen>
  53
  54 <para>Since the libraries have been moved to
  55 <filename>/lib</filename>, a few symlinks are currently pointing
  56 towards non-existing files. Recreate those symlinks:</para>
  57
  58 <screen><userinput>ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so
  59 ln -sf libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so</userinput></screen>
  60 </sect2>
  61
  62 </sect1>