Subj : Re: OXP unter Debian11
To   : All
From : Franklin Schiftan
Date : Fri Sep 01 2023 13:46:29

From: Franklin Schiftan <fraschi_usenet@arcor.de>

Am 2023-08-31 um 20:00 schrieb Gunter:
> 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 !·

O.k., libncursesw5 finde ich hier in der Paketverwaltung zum Installieren.

Aber was ist mit den anderen beiden Bibliotheken, z.B. libpanelw finde
ich hier nicht in der Paketverwaltung.

> 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
>
  .... und tschüss

             Franklin

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