From: "Douglas Cole" <n7bfs@qwest.net>
To: John@man.ac.uk, htodd@twofifty.com
Cc: linux-hams@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: installing Predict on a RedHat 7.3 box , no go :^(
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:54:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200212161854.26249.n7bfs@qwest.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E18Nz1e-00050R-00@probity.mcc.ac.uk>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-12-17 2:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-16 0:28 installing Predict on a RedHat 7.3 box , no go :^( Douglas Cole
2002-12-16 1:56 ` Douglas Cole
2002-12-16 2:02 ` Nate Bargmann
2002-12-16 4:03 ` Hisashi T Fujinaka
2002-12-16 17:24 ` John
2002-12-17 2:54 ` Douglas Cole [this message]
2002-12-16 10:26 ` Matti Aarnio
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