On Monday 03 June 2002 20:56, you wrote:
Not in the Control Center, although that would have been a natural place to put it. Start at "Start Application", go to "Configuration", then "Packaging". There should be a choice of "Software Manager" at that point. I believe, in Mandrake 8.0, there is/was an icon on the desktop for this. At least, there was on mine.
My boo-boo - I failed to mention that I'm using IceWM as my window manager, not KDE. By default, there are no icons on the IceWM desktop, as it's only a window mgr., not a desktop mgr. Last night, while looking thru the /usr/bin directory for the Mandrake utilities installed there, I found RPMDrake, which is the "Software Manager" that Jonathan mentioned. I had tried to use it back when I was running KDE, but I found it was very confusing. I instead would use the KDE utility called "Kpackage", which I feel is a lot more intuitive and informative. Sometimes, I just su to root in an xterm, and install the rpm from the command line. A lot quicker than starting up a graphical app which has to read the rpm database first! Anyway.... *that's* why I didn't know what Jonathan was talking about when he mentioned using the "Software Manager".
By the way, I have ncurses-5.2-12mdk.i386.rpm installed (checked by doing: rpm -q ncurses), and even re-installed it.
The files you need are in libncurses5-devel-5.2-12mdk.
AH-HA!! Installed it, and the compile now works flawlessly! I didn't think to look thru all of the 100's of rpm's that start with "lib" that are on the Mandrake CD. (Well... it seems like 100's, anyway.) Thanks everyone! Scott Boyd