how to tell if curses is installed?

[Tom Fowle]

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
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