From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Douglas Cole" Subject: Re: installing Predict on a RedHat 7.3 box , no go :^( Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:54:26 -0800 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200212161854.26249.n7bfs@qwest.net> References: Reply-To: n7bfs@qwest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: John@man.ac.uk, htodd@twofifty.com Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org 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 -- Douglas Cole N7BFS Spokane IRLP node owner AMSAT#26182 , K2 # 544 http://www.users.qwest.net/~cdoug3 Registered Linux user # 188922