Just to close my question, installed curses5-dev and recompiled the satelite prediction program "predict" successfully. Now I just gotta learn to understand the output thanks all tom Fowle On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 06:34:10PM -0700, Tom Fowle wrote: > Greg, > Thanks, it's not installed, will do that > Tom Fowle > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 08:59:08PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: > > Running: > > > > aptitude show libncurses5-dev > > > > should do it. > > > > Greg > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 08:50:28PM -0700, Tom Fowle wrote: > > > Trying to configure asomewhat old satelite tracking program > > > "Predict2.2... > > > the ./configure script claims it can't find either gcc or curses.h > > > gcc is obviously present and accounted for, but I'm not sure how to tell if > > > the curses library is installed. > > > > > > presume it is a part of debian wheezy's normal install? > > > but general searches don't reveal a way of finding out, curses isn't, I > > > guess, a "package" > > > > > > Thanks > > > tom Fowle > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > -- > > web site: http://www.gregn.net > > gpg public key: http://www.gregn.net/pubkey.asc > > skype: gregn1 > > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > If we haven't been in touch before, e-mail me before adding me to your contacts. > > > > -- > > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@xxxxxx > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://linux-speakup.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/speakup
