on Tuesday 07/07/2009 Alan E. Davis(lngn...@gmail.com) wrote
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Neil Bothwick<n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > It doesn't matter. Once you have chrooted you are using software
> > installed in the chroot.
> >
> > However, it may not be possible to use revdep-rebuild without ncurses, in
> > which case you need some kind soul with a similar setup to provide you
> > with a binary package of ncurses, which you can unpack into your root
> > directory.
> >
>
> This is exactly what happened. I used the systemrescuecd, chrooted,
> and, lo and behold, the same error message was coming up. What I
> might be able to do is symlink to libncursesw ? Don't know whether
> it's even on the system.
>
> On the other hand, with a binary ncurses, I could see that might work.
> Is there a binary repo? (Back to sabayon?). I suppose I need to
> know the exact version. Does it matter which use flags it was
> compiled with?
I wonder if you say -C and -P would it still use ncurses since you
are turning off color and progress indications?
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