Ubuntu 11.10 issues

[Bruce Visscher]

On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Jerry James <james at xemacs.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Bruce Visscher
> <bruce.visscher at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> IIRC Matts is correct, you must have ncurses install on Ubuntu to get
>>> XEmacs working. I don't remember *which* exact packages and my notes
>>> are at work. But here is what I have installed:
>>>
>>> % dpkg --get-selections | fgrep curses
>>> libncurses5                                     install
>>> libncurses5-dbg                                 install
>>> libncurses5-dev                                 install
>   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is the one you need.
>
>>> libncursesw5                                    install
>>> ncurses-base                                    install
>>> ncurses-bin                                     install
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>   Sean
>>
>> % dpkg --get-selections | fgrep curses
>> lib64ncurses5                                   deinstall
>> libncurses5                                     install
>> libncursesw5                                    install
>> ncurses-base                                    install
>> ncurses-bin                                     install
>> ncurses-term                                    install
>
> Notice it isn't on your list.  Regards,
> --
> Jerry James
> http://www.jamezone.org/

Very astute.  Installed missing library. Now it builds but runs in TTY
mode.  I reverted my changes and started over.  Same thing.

Thanks,
Bruce