Installing mysql-5.0.51.tar.gz on Slackware

properganda · 01-16-2008, 10:42 AM

I got to the "./configure --prefix=/usr/local/mysql .." stage and ran into this error:

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checking for nl_langinfo and CODESET... yes
checking for tgetent in -lncurses... no
checking for tgetent in -lcurses... no
checking for tgetent in -ltermcap... no
checking for tgetent in -ltinfo... no
checking for termcap functions library... configure: error: No curses/termcap library found

I looked on the MySQL website and found these two entries:

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[13 May 2006 4:05] Miguel Solorzano

Thank you for the bug report. The issue is that the ncurses stuff isn't
instaled for to find which name Ubuntu uses for that library I did:

apt-cache search ncurses

and I found:

libncurses5-dev - Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses

and installed it with:

apt-get install libncurses5-dev

On my side also I needed to do the same with OpenSSL stuff:
apt-cache search openssl
apt-get install libssl-dev

[9 Feb 2007 20:58] Andrzej Krecijasz

I tried to install on Debian SARGE and I get the same problem.
apt-get install libncurses5-dev solved problem.

Thanks

[5 Jul 2007 14:57] mohamed guechbar

I had the same problem on Debian etch and : apt-get install libncurses5-dev solved it

[9 Sep 2007 19:35] Atli Jónsson

Had this error on Fedora 7.
Fixed it by doing: yum install ncurses-devel

Does anyone know how these solutions translate into Slackware?

Alien_Hominid · 01-16-2008, 10:51 AM

run pkgtool ans check if you have ncurses installed

properganda · 01-16-2008, 11:32 AM

I did so, and I don't. But I don't know where I might find it... looking on the Slackware site I could find no "search for package" type feature. Anybody got a clue?

properganda · 01-16-2008, 11:35 AM

Okay, so I just found this: ncurses-5.6.tar.gz, I'll shove this in the box and see if smoke comes out.

rworkman · 01-16-2008, 11:45 AM

Why are you using Slackware if you haven't bothered to read the provided documentation for it?
Have a look at http://slackbook.org - you'll (hopefully) realize that you're doing two things that are not necessary; both mysql and ncurses are included with Slackware.

properganda · 01-16-2008, 12:03 PM

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Originally Posted by rworkman

Why are you using Slackware if you haven't bothered to read the provided documentation for it?
Have a look at http://slackbook.org - you'll (hopefully) realize that you're doing two things that are not necessary; both mysql and ncurses are included with Slackware.

Not in my installation they're not. I took a "basic" installation of Slackware specifically because I wanted to have to install and configure this stuff, probably coming out not much more linux-literate but with a deeper grasp of what I don't know.

I felt I might get constructive input via this forum while I was at it, so far for the most part that has held true.

willysr · 01-16-2008, 07:54 PM

if you are looking for 5.0.51, you can grab the SlackBuild from Slackware's repository and use it to compile the 5.0.51 source and you will have Slackware's tgz format of MySQL 5.0.51

of course it has been available, but for -Current users only and not for production machine

properganda · 01-17-2008, 05:00 AM

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Originally Posted by willysr

if you are looking for 5.0.51, you can grab the SlackBuild from Slackware's repository and use it to compile the 5.0.51 source and you will have Slackware's tgz format of MySQL 5.0.51

of course it has been available, but for -Current users only and not for production machine

Thanks for the advice, got it, installed it- now the error message has changed slightly.

gilead · 01-17-2008, 05:27 PM

Can you tell us what the error message has changed to, please?

properganda · 01-18-2008, 03:11 AM

No, :- (

Slackware seemed riddled with these dependacy issues, installing anything seemed to get bogged down with searching for fiddly little files all the time that even when you do install them it still complains as if on a whim. I decided to install Gentoo instead for now, so I can actually get some things done. I will return to Slackware another time. I suppose there is alot you can learn from it, but mainly (it seems to me) about dependancy issues.

Eternal_Newbie · 01-18-2008, 05:56 AM

You install a minimal Slackware install and then complain about missing dependencies? Surely you know that on Slackware resolving dependencies is your problem, not the computers?

I think it would help if you read the Slackware Book, the SlackWiki and some other general Linux resources, like "Linux in a Nutshell" and "The RUTE Users Guide". You seem to have a misunderstanding about how Slackware works.

properganda · 01-18-2008, 06:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Eternal_Newbie

You install a minimal Slackware install and then complain about missing dependencies? Surely you know that on Slackware resolving dependencies is your problem, not the computers?

I think it would help if you read the Slackware Book, the SlackWiki and some other general Linux resources, like "Linux in a Nutshell" and "The RUTE Users Guide". You seem to have a misunderstanding about how Slackware works.

Let me re-phrase that, I expected the dependancy issues, almost like a kind of tour around Linux, what things need to go. Installing Torrent software? Oh then you'll need this, and this, and that... but I got abit fed up when after installing this, and this, and that the things still didn't work, as in complaining about not having the same package that pkgtool agrees I just installed.

It's at that point I realised I may have bitten of more than I have time to chew with a basic installation of Slackware. Still it's been a valuable experience so far in terms of how much trouble a decent installation tool (like rpm or apt-get) can save you.

And don't get me wrong, I do want to play with Slackware some more, but will have to wait for now.

Long Live Struggle! afterall.