Vim installation , missing terminal libraries

rocketman8541 · 08-24-2006, 08:09 PM

Hello vimmers,

I need your help diagnosing the following issue:

While .configuring vim7.0 I came across the following failures

Code:

checking --with-tlib argument... empty: automatic terminal library selection
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermlib... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
no terminal library found
checking for tgetent()... configure: error: NOT FOUND!
      You need to install a terminal library; for example ncurses.
      Or specify the name of the library with --with-tlib.

So far to troubleshoot I have attempted the following:

1. Checked for presence of the ncurses rpm:

Code:

 529> rpm -q ncurses
ncurses-5.2-12
530>

2. Checked the /usr/lib dir for library files:

Code:

533> ls libncurses*
libncurses.so.4@  libncurses.so.4.0*  libncurses.so.5@  libncurses.so.5.2*
534> pwd -P
/usr/lib
535>

3. Found this file:

Code:

536> l /etc/termcap
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root       737535 Jul 20  2001 /etc/termcap
537>

4. Guessing around with the "--with-tlib=" option

As a side note I DO NOT have root access on this machine.

I need some direction on what to look at next as Im not familiar interacting with these "terminal libraries". Please help

Cheers!

reddazz · 08-25-2006, 04:21 PM

Install the ncurses-devel and termcap-devel packages.

rocketman8541 · 08-28-2006, 08:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by reddazz

Install the ncurses-devel and termcap-devel packages.

Good catch, upon review this defintily looks like a good direction to begin investigating:

Code:

 504> rpm -q termcap-devel
package termcap-devel is not installed
 506> rpm -q ncurses-devel
package ncurses-devel is not installed
 507>

Will need to install these in my home dir though as opposed to rpm since I dont want to mess with this machines current set up.

What is interesting here is vim 6.0.152 is already on this machine natively. Im wondering how they installed this in the first place?

(The install was tiny for 6.0.152, since I have the space on my shareI want to install a beefier vim with syntax highlighting options)

Will post updates after I set up the above 2 packages

reddazz · 08-28-2006, 08:44 AM

Development (devel) packages are not needed for a package to run. They are needed for compiling packages from source.