how to tell if curses is installed?

[Tom Fowle]

Ari,
thanks will install it.
Tom Fowle

On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 08:12:44AM +0300, Ari Moisio wrote:
> Hi
> 
> For  self-compiled programs you usually need  the dev packages, for
> example libncurses-dev on Debian.
> 
> 
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>  Tom Fowle kirjoitti
> >Subject: how to tell if curses is installed?
> >Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2017 20:50:28 -0700
> >From: Tom Fowle <wa6ivgtf at fastmail.fm>
> >To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. <speakup at linux-speakup.org>
> >
> >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
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