Subj : Re: OXP unter Debian11
To   : All
From : Gunter
Date : Thu Aug 31 2023 20:00:00

From: Gunter <gunter.sandner@googlemail.com>

Hallo Martin!

>> Ich verwende für den Linux-Build ein uraltes KUbuntu 14.04, Martin hat
>> bzw. hatte sicher ein anderes Build-System.

> Every release was built on Mageia5, which is also a very old distro but
> this particular problem has nothing whatsoever to do with the build
> system in use. The real problem is that, in order to run, OpenXP
> requires the ncursesw5 libraries, which are not normally installed by
> default on "modern" distros. It's now normal custom and practice for the
> ncursesw6 libraries to be installed by default but that is easily solved
> by the user by installing the ncursesw5 libraries from their distros
> package repository.

Excellent solution !·

I wonder why it's necessary to additionally install ncursesw5 on newer  
distros if a simple symlink did the trick on Franklin's system (which im my  
opinion implies upward compatibility).


Ciao
Gunter

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