GrADS on Ubuntu Linux

[Wang Jun]

Hey, You don't need to do these things at all. You can just link
your /usr/lib/libncurses.so to libtermcap.so.2 and that would be OK!

Just try. :-)

2008/9/10 Ryo Furue <furue at hawaii.edu>

> | I have Grads 2.0a3 installed on a Ubuntu system right now.  I used
> | the i686 pre-compiled version that is offered on the site but I had
> | to make a few tweeks to get around the libtermcap issue.
> |
> | Heres what I had to do:
> | install the following Deb packages:
> | ldso_1.9.11-15_i386.deb
> | glibc5_5.4.46-15_i386.deb
> | termcap-compat_1.2.3_i386.deb
>
> Another route may be to find RPM packages and convert them to Deb
> packages.  Suppose you want version 2 of libtermcap.  Then search
> Google for libtermcap .  You'll find RPM packages containing
> libtermcap version 2, such as
>
>   libtermcap-2.0.8-41.i386.rpm
>
> Download one of them.  Then convert it to a .deb package, like so:
>
>   $ su -
>   # cd /var/tmp
>   # alien /your/path/to/libtermcap-2.0.8-41.i386.rpm
>
> This produces a .deb package like
>
>   libtermcap_2.0.8-42_i386.deb
>
> Finally, install it as
>
>   # dpkg -i libtermcap_2.0.8-42_i386.deb
>
> If you don't have the alien command, install it using apt-get,
> aptitude, or an equivalent commend.
>
> This method is helpful when a Deb package is not available.
> For example, I don't think termcap-compat is available
> for the current Debian distributions.  (I vaguely remember
> I used to use it.)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Ryo
>



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Regards,
Wang Jun
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