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: Sun, 15 Dec 2002 17:56:14 -0800 Sender: linux-hams-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200212151756.14606.n7bfs@qwest.net> References: <200212151628.02870.n7bfs@qwest.net> Reply-To: n7bfs@qwest.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200212151628.02870.n7bfs@qwest.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org 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