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diff --git a/appendixa/ncurses-dep.xml b/appendixa/ncurses-dep.xml index 940e74f45..cfef08b48 100644 --- a/appendixa/ncurses-dep.xml +++ b/appendixa/ncurses-dep.xml @@ -1,3 +1,5 @@ +<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2> + <sect2> <title>Ncurses Installation Dependencies</title> diff --git a/appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml b/appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml index d9e30ef7e..f99eb9ea6 100644 --- a/appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml @@ -1,12 +1,10 @@ -<sect2><title>Contents of Ncurses</title> +<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2> -<para>Last checked against version &ncurses-contversion;.</para> +<sect2><title>Descriptions</title> -<sect3><title>Program Files</title> -<para>captoinfo (link to tic), clear, infocmp, infotocap (link to tic), -reset (link to tset), tack, tic, toe, tput and tset.</para></sect3> +<para>Last checked against version &ncurses-contversion;.</para> -<sect3><title>Descriptions</title> +<sect3><title>Program file descriptions</title> <sect4><title>captoinfo</title> <para>captoinfo converts a termcap description into a terminfo @@ -59,11 +57,7 @@ widely used anymore. It's provided for 4.4BSD compatibility.</para></sect4> </sect3> -<sect3><title>Library Files</title> -<para>libcurses.[a,so] (link to libncurses.[a,so]), libform.[a,so], -libform_g.a, libmenu.[a,so], libmenu_g.a, libncurses++.a, -libncurses.[a,so], libncurses_g.a, libpanel.[a,so] and -libpanel_g.a</para> +<sect3><title>Library file descriptions</title> <sect4><title>libcurses, libncurses++, libncurses, libncurses_g</title> <para>These libraries are the base of the system and are used to display diff --git a/appendixa/ncurses.xml b/appendixa/ncurses.xml index afa2f2aaa..45388e83b 100644 --- a/appendixa/ncurses.xml +++ b/appendixa/ncurses.xml @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ <?dbhtml filename="ncurses.html" dir="appendixa"?> &aa-ncurses-down; +&aa-ncurses-shortdesc; &aa-ncurses-desc; &aa-ncurses-dep; diff --git a/chapter06/ncurses-inst.xml b/chapter06/ncurses-inst.xml index d6be4e396..d63ef628a 100644 --- a/chapter06/ncurses-inst.xml +++ b/chapter06/ncurses-inst.xml @@ -1,14 +1,35 @@ +<sect2><title> </title><para> </para></sect2> + <sect2> <title>Installation of Ncurses</title> -<para>Install Ncurses by running the following commands:</para> +<para>Prepare Ncurses to be compiled:</para> + +<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared</userinput></screen></para> + +<para>Continue with compiling the package:</para> + +<para><screen><userinput>make</userinput></screen></para> + +<para>Install the package:</para> + +<para><screen><userinput>make install</userinput></screen></para> + +<para>Give the ncurses libraries executable permission:</para> + +<para><screen><userinput>chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&ncurses-version;</userinput></screen></para> + +<para>Move the libraries to the <filename>/lib</filename> directory, +where they're expected to reside:</para> + +<para><screen><userinput>mv /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5* /lib</userinput></screen></para> + +<para>Since the libaries have been moved to +<filename>/lib</filename>, a few symlinks are currently pointing +towards non-existing files. Create the following symlinks to +account for this:</para> -<para><screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared && -make && -make install && -chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&ncurses-version; && -mv /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5* /lib && -ln -sf libncurses.a /usr/lib/libcurses.a && +<para><screen><userinput>ln -sf libncurses.a /usr/lib/libcurses.a && ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so && ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libcurses.so</userinput></screen></para> </sect2> diff --git a/chapter06/ncurses.xml b/chapter06/ncurses.xml index f2de308b5..aa97c4867 100644 --- a/chapter06/ncurses.xml +++ b/chapter06/ncurses.xml @@ -5,10 +5,9 @@ <screen>Estimated build time: &ncurses-time; Estimated required disk space: &ncurses-compsize;</screen> -&c6-ncurses-inst; -&c6-ncurses-exp; -&aa-ncurses-desc; +&aa-ncurses-shortdesc; &aa-ncurses-dep; +&c6-ncurses-inst; </sect1> diff --git a/entities/ncurses.ent b/entities/ncurses.ent index 4161e6ffe..6d2223c90 100644 --- a/entities/ncurses.ent +++ b/entities/ncurses.ent @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ <!ENTITY aa-ncurses-desc SYSTEM "../appendixa/ncurses-desc.xml"> <!ENTITY aa-ncurses-dep SYSTEM "../appendixa/ncurses-dep.xml"> <!ENTITY aa-ncurses-down SYSTEM "../appendixa/ncurses-down.xml"> +<!ENTITY aa-ncurses-shortdesc SYSTEM "../appendixa/ncurses-shortdesc.xml"> <!ENTITY ncurses-version "5.3"> <!ENTITY ncurses-depversion "5.2"> |