From octave-maintainers-request at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu  Fri Nov  1 11:53:07 1996
Subject: Re: Octave 1.90 available for ftp
From: Jeppe Sigbrandt <jay at elec dot gla dot ac dot uk>
To: jwe at bevo dot che dot wisc dot edu, octave-maintainers@bevo.che.wisc.edu
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 17:53:29 GMT


Hi,

(have sent this to mailing list since somebody there may 
know whats going on, and it may be useful if anyone else is
running into similar problems with Debian)

jwe writes:
> If your system has ncurses, why is the test for it failing?  Is it in
> a directory that ld doesn't normally search?

This is what /var/lib/dpkg/status reports 
(dpkg maintains a database about the state of the debian system):

Package: ncurses-base
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman at lot49 dot med dot miami dot edu>
Source: ncurses 1.9.9e-1
Version: 1.9.9e-1
Replaces: ncurses-term
Provides: ncurses-runtime
Conflicts: ncurses, ncurses-runtime
Description: Video terminal manipulation: Minimum set of terminals
 This package contains what should be a reasonable subset of terminal
 definitions, including: ansi, dumb, linux, sun, vt100, vt102, vt220,
 vt52, xterm and xterm-color.

Package: ncurses3.0
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman at lot49 dot med dot miami dot edu>
Source: ncurses 1.9.9e-1
Version: 1.9.9e-1
Depends: libc5
Conflicts: ncurses
Description: Video terminal manipulation: shared libraries
 This package contains the shared libraries necessary to run programs
 compiled with the ncurses libraries.

Package: ncurses-bin
Essential: yes
Status: install ok installed
Priority: required
Section: base
Maintainer: Michael Alan Dorman <mdorman at lot49 dot med dot miami dot edu>
Source: ncurses 1.9.9e-1
Version: 1.9.9e-1
Replaces: tput
Depends: ncurses3.0, libc5
Pre-Depends: ncurses3.0, libc5
Conflicts: ncurses, tput
Description: Video terminal manipulation: associated programs and man pages
 This package contains the programs used for manipulating the terminfo
 database and individual terminfo entries, as well as some programs for
 resetting terminals and such.


It appears I have "ncurses-base" and "ncurses3.0" and "ncurses-bin" installed, 
which conflict with "ncurses".  Maybe this is more a problem for Debian
people ...

For more details of the exact files within the above packages one can do
grep ncurses ftp://ftp.mcc.ac.uk:/pub/linux/distributions/Debian/buzz/Contents.gz

Files with "ncurses" in their filenames are located at:
/lib/libncurses.so.3.0
/lib/libcurses.so.0.1.2
/lib/libcurses.so.0
			

Regards,
jay