Greetings, To spice up a uni assignment I have the option to use the ncurses library. However, I'm not at all sure that anything related to it is installed in my Squeeze system, since the command 'man ncurses' brings up nothing (or, to be more precise, an error message). When I connect to my department's linux systems via ssh they appear to have the library installed since the relative manpage is working.
Here's what I get when I attempt to install the (otherwise non-existing) 'curses' package: ja...@debian:~$ sudo aptitude install curses Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Couldn't find package "curses". However, the following packages contain "curses" in their name: lib64ncurses5 libncurses5 libncurses-ruby1.8 libncurses-ruby1.9 libkaya-ncursesw-dev libcunit1-ncurses libcurses-perl libncurses-dev irmp3-ncurses ncurses-base libncurses-gst libncursesw5-dbg libncursesw5-dev ncurses-term pinentry-curses libcurses-ui-perl ncurses-hexedit libcurses-ruby libcunit1-ncurses-dev libcurses-ruby1.8 lib64ncurses5-dev libcurses-widgets-perl libkaya-ncurses-dev cmake-curses-gui weechat-curses libcurses-ocaml-dev libncurses-ruby ncurses-runtime libncurses5-dbg libncurses5-dev libncursesw5 yorick-curses libconfig-model-cursesui-perl libcurses-ocaml ncurses-bin ncurses-dev Couldn't find package "curses". However, the following packages contain "curses" in their name: lib64ncurses5 libncurses5 libncurses-ruby1.8 libncurses-ruby1.9 libkaya-ncursesw-dev libcunit1-ncurses libcurses-perl libncurses-dev irmp3-ncurses ncurses-base libncurses-gst libncursesw5-dbg libncursesw5-dev ncurses-term pinentry-curses libcurses-ui-perl ncurses-hexedit libcurses-ruby libcunit1-ncurses-dev libcurses-ruby1.8 lib64ncurses5-dev libcurses-widgets-perl libkaya-ncurses-dev cmake-curses-gui weechat-curses libcurses-ocaml-dev libncurses-ruby ncurses-runtime libncurses5-dbg libncurses5-dev libncursesw5 yorick-curses libconfig-model-cursesui-perl libcurses-ocaml ncurses-bin ncurses-dev No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed. 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Which package would fit my needs best? Thanks in advance, Jason
