installing Predict on a RedHat 7.3 box , no go :^(

installing Predict on a RedHat 7.3 box , no go :^(

[Douglas Cole]

Ok ,  I must admit to not being very good at installing something if its not 
in a RPM form , so when I tried to install Predict on a SuSE 8.0 box and it 
went flawlessly I got rather overconfident and tried to install it on my 
RedHat IRLP node box , so I could let it run as a server 24/7 since that 
machine is always on , and has alot of process time doing nothing...

BUT , it will not even begin to install :^(
here is what I get when I try to run ./configure on the RedHat box...

[root@n7bfs predict-2.2.1]# ./configure
One moment please... installer.c:16:20: curses.h: No such file or directory
Compilation failed.  Are you sure you have a C compiler (gcc) installed?
[root@n7bfs predict-2.2.1]#


Now , what I get from that is that my node box does not have curses installed.

Hmm , so I check and sure enough it has "ncurses" installed , but not curses, 
so I check all 3 install cd's and none have a curses package on them , so I 
check the SuSE install dvd and sure enough -it- has it!

So my general question is , has anyone who is using the latest version of 
predict running it on a RedHat box and if so what did you have to do to make 
it happen ?

I have done a search on rpmfind.net and have not found any curses packages for 
Redhat , which seems kinda confusing , but not surprising .

Or could someone point me in the direction of a how-to/info page that would 
help me figure out how to install curses from sources so I don't need a 
stinking RPM file to install curses on my node box ;^}
Or maybe I just didn't install RedHat properly...

tia for any input!


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Spokane IRLP node owner
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Re: installing Predict on a RedHat 7.3 box , no go :^(

[Douglas Cole]

On Sunday 15 December 2002 16:28, Douglas Cole wrote:
> Ok ,  I must admit to not being very good at installing something if its
> not in a RPM form , so when I tried to install Predict on a SuSE 8.0 box
> and it went flawlessly I got rather overconfident and tried to install it
> on my RedHat IRLP node box , so I could let it run as a server 24/7 since
> that machine is always on , and has alot of process time doing nothing...
>
> BUT , it will not even begin to install :^(
> here is what I get when I try to run ./configure on the RedHat box...
>
> [root@n7bfs predict-2.2.1]# ./configure
> One moment please... installer.c:16:20: curses.h: No such file or directory
> Compilation failed.  Are you sure you have a C compiler (gcc) installed?
> [root@n7bfs predict-2.2.1]#
>

Well , I figured it out , apparently I needed to install the development 
package for ncurses which I found on rpmfind.net , once I did that it took 
right off ...

Since the node box has a small drive I didn't install the "developement" 
packages, and I downloaded the Redhat ISO's from linuxiso.org , the sources 
were not complete since I only burnt the first three disk's , so anywho , all 
is well , and I am in the process of setting it up to work on my IRLP node 
box , then will make it automagically update the kep's , then I won't have to 
think about it again :)

Boy do I like Linux :^))


>
> Now , what I get from that is that my node box does not have curses
> installed.
>
> Hmm , so I check and sure enough it has "ncurses" installed , but not
> curses, so I check all 3 install cd's and none have a curses package on
> them , so I check the SuSE install dvd and sure enough -it- has it!
>
> So my general question is , has anyone who is using the latest version of
> predict running it on a RedHat box and if so what did you have to do to
> make it happen ?
>
> I have done a search on rpmfind.net and have not found any curses packages
> for Redhat , which seems kinda confusing , but not surprising .
>
> Or could someone point me in the direction of a how-to/info page that would
> help me figure out how to install curses from sources so I don't need a
> stinking RPM file to install curses on my node box ;^}
> Or maybe I just didn't install RedHat properly...
>
> tia for any input!

-- 
Douglas Cole   N7BFS
AMSAT#26182 , K2 # 544
http://www.users.qwest.net/~cdoug3
Registered Linux user # 188922

Re: installing Predict on a RedHat 7.3 box , no go :^(

[Nate Bargmann]

* Douglas Cole <n7bfs@qwest.net> [2002 Dec 15 18:35 -0600]:
> [root@n7bfs predict-2.2.1]# ./configure
> One moment please... installer.c:16:20: curses.h: No such file or directory
> Compilation failed.  Are you sure you have a C compiler (gcc) installed?
> [root@n7bfs predict-2.2.1]#
> 
> 
> Now , what I get from that is that my node box does not have curses installed.
> 
> Hmm , so I check and sure enough it has "ncurses" installed , but not curses, 
> so I check all 3 install cd's and none have a curses package on them , so I 
> check the SuSE install dvd and sure enough -it- has it!

Most likely your system is lacking the ncurses development package.  To
keep installation size smaller the binary library and files needed for
compiling packages that use the binary library are in seperate packages.
So, just install ncurses-dev or something similar and you should be
fine.

73, de Nate >>

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Re: installing Predict on a RedHat 7.3 box , no go :^(

[Hisashi T Fujinaka]

Predict isn't all that hard to get going. I even got it going on a NetBSD
box.

On Sun, 15 Dec 2002, Nate Bargmann wrote:

> * Douglas Cole <n7bfs@qwest.net> [2002 Dec 15 18:35 -0600]:
> > [root@n7bfs predict-2.2.1]# ./configure
> > One moment please... installer.c:16:20: curses.h: No such file or directory
> > Compilation failed.  Are you sure you have a C compiler (gcc) installed?
> > [root@n7bfs predict-2.2.1]#
> >
> >
> > Now , what I get from that is that my node box does not have curses installed.
> >
> > Hmm , so I check and sure enough it has "ncurses" installed , but not curses,
> > so I check all 3 install cd's and none have a curses package on them , so I
> > check the SuSE install dvd and sure enough -it- has it!
>
> Most likely your system is lacking the ncurses development package.  To
> keep installation size smaller the binary library and files needed for
> compiling packages that use the binary library are in seperate packages.
> So, just install ncurses-dev or something similar and you should be
> fine.
>
> 73, de Nate >>
>
>

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Re: installing Predict on a RedHat 7.3 box , no go :^(

[Matti Aarnio]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 at 04:28:02PM -0800, Douglas Cole wrote:
...
> BUT , it will not even begin to install :^(
> here is what I get when I try to run ./configure on the RedHat box...
> 
> [root@n7bfs predict-2.2.1]# ./configure
> One moment please... installer.c:16:20: curses.h: No such file or directory
> Compilation failed.  Are you sure you have a C compiler (gcc) installed?
> [root@n7bfs predict-2.2.1]#

  You do need   ncurses-devel  package.

...
> tia for any input!
> -- 
> Douglas Cole   N7BFS

73 de Matti Aarnio, OH1MQK

Re: installing Predict on a RedHat 7.3 box , no go :^(

[John]

On 15 Dec, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> Predict isn't all that hard to get going. I even got it going on a NetBSD
> box.

I have it running on several SuSE systems, CygWIN on Windows and on IRIX
6.5 on an ancient SGI Challenge S...

See my Predict 2.2.1 mods at:

	http://voyager.mcc.ac.uk/Predict/
or
	http://cumin.mcc.ac.uk/Predict/

John
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Re: installing Predict on a RedHat 7.3 box , no go :^(

[Douglas Cole]

On Monday 16 December 2002 09:24, John@man.ac.uk wrote:
> On 15 Dec, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:
> > Predict isn't all that hard to get going. I even got it going on a NetBSD
> > box.
>
> I have it running on several SuSE systems, CygWIN on Windows and on IRIX
> 6.5 on an ancient SGI Challenge S...
>
> See my Predict 2.2.1 mods at:
>
> 	http://voyager.mcc.ac.uk/Predict/
> or
> 	http://cumin.mcc.ac.uk/Predict/
>
> John

Yeah , I'm kinda dumb that way , since I don't write software and I am 
notoriously lazy...

On the particular box that I was having troubles installing , it was a minimal 
installation to conserve disk space, hence no development packages, whereas 
my SuSE box has a very large drive so I just told it to install "everything" 
and so the fact that it "the SuSE distro' installer scripts" happily 
installed the dev-packages of course was transparent to a dummy like me, all 
I knew was it was a no brainer to install predict on my SuSE box and the 
RH-IRLP node box was a no go, and since the error code confusingly (not a 
word) said curses.h , and of course I looked for a curses package and 
couldn't find anything but ncurses, so after looking at the files on my SuSE 
box and seeing curses.h there , I looked at the installed packages and didn't 
find any curses package but did find a ncurses-dev package, so I made a leap 
of faith and downloaded and installed the RH7.3 package for ncurses-devel and 
sure enough the predict installer played :)

Now , all you sharp egg's out there are going , duh !?!

But for me that took some effort , so if by some chance this is archived so 
that someone else runs into this same scenario then I hope that this will 
help them ...
I'll try and have a better question next time ;^}

my 5cents worth ...

73

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Spokane IRLP node owner
AMSAT#26182 , K2 # 544
http://www.users.qwest.net/~cdoug3
Registered Linux user # 188922