Cant't find curses.h

[Joachim Backes]

Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> mcforum at bellsouth.net wrote:
>> The os is Fedora 7 installed from the live cd. That may have
>> brought me up short on a -develop file. I thought that I had picked
>> up everything from the web. I didn't know to put the path
>> specification in yum whatprovides. If the wildcard method works it
>> would solve many questions.

Installation of ncurses-devel solves the problem (not installed by default).

>>
>> TNWestTex
>>
> Few development RPMs are installed by default. I guess the thinking
> is that your average installation is not going to be compiling
> programs. (Desktop or server install.) So the header files are just
> going to be taking up space, and in possible adding a security risk.
> Someone that cracks the box has a harder time of it if there are no
> tools to compile programs on the box. But it does make it harder for
> the people that do want to compile their own programs.
> 
> I don't know of an easy way to install all the development packages.
> Maybe a script to check what libs you have installed, and use yum to
> install the matching devel packages? I believe that doing something
> like "yum install *-devel" will also try to install any library with
> a devel package that is not currently installed on your system.
> 
> Mikkel
> 


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