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How to install Ncurses/Terminfo on your system
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to read the BSD CONVERSION NOTES section below.
If you are trying to build applications using gpm with ncurses,
-read the USING NCURSES WITH GPM section below.
+read the USING GPM section below.
If you are cross-compiling, see the note below on
BUILDING WITH A CROSS-COMPILER.
The --prefix option to configure changes the root directory for installing
ncurses. The default is normally in subdirectories of /usr/local, except
for systems where ncurses is normally installed as a system library (see
- "IF YOU ARE A SYSTEM INTEGRATOR"). Use --prefix=/usr to replace your
+ "FOR SYSTEM INTEGRATORS"). Use --prefix=/usr to replace your
default curses distribution.
The package gets installed beneath the --prefix directory as follows:
You can make curses and terminfo fall back to an existing file of termcap
definitions by configuring with --enable-termcap. If you do this, the
library will search /etc/termcap before the terminfo database, and will
- also interpret the contents of the TERM environment variable. See the
+ also interpret the contents of the $TERM environment variable. See the
section BSD CONVERSION NOTES below.
3. Type 'make'. Ignore any warnings; no error messages should be produced.
Specify a search-list of terminfo directories which will be compiled
into the ncurses library (default: DATADIR/terminfo)
- This is a colon-separated list, like the TERMINFO_DIRS environment
+ This is a colon-separated list, like the $TERMINFO_DIRS environment
variable.
--with-termlib[=XXX]