* Theo Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020122 07:01]: > Hi All > > I have been struggling to get mutt installed on my 2.2r3 poptato > system. > > When I run apt-get install mutt it works fine however when I go into > it the cursor just flashes and nothing else works. I then read > somewhere that the following needs to be installed: > > ncurses and slang
you can find the package names with apt-cache search --names-only slang apt-cache search --names-only ncurses > A normal apt-get on either of these did not work so I then downloaded > the tar.gz and ran it like that. Both installed no problem. Three pointers if you compile the source yourself: 1) Have the "-dev"-versions of the libraries installed too: If a package needs i.E. libncurses4 then to compile it you need libncurses4-dev as well 2) Maybe you have luck downloading the source of the woody or sid package. For mutt you would have to go to http://packages.debian.org/unstable/non-us/mutt.html Down the page there is a 'Source Code' line. Download the 'dsc', the 'orig.tar.gz' and the 'diff.gz' files into some directory, go to that directory and enter 'dpkg-source -x name-of-dsc-file'. This will give you an folder with the program source, debian patches applied and the possibility to build a package from that easily by entering that folder and issuing 'fakeroot debian/rules binary'. If you're lucky this will give you a nice deb package suiting to your system. If you're unlucky come back here :-) 3) If you want to compile by hand use GNU stow at least. It saves a lot of hazzle (just my 2c). -- Karsten Heymann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CAU-University Kiel, Germany Registered Linux User #221014 (http://counter.li.org)
