[Dxspider-support] Setup on Ubuntu 10.04 64bit (long)

[Ian Maude]

This highlights how out of date the spider documentation is nowadays!  We really need to capture this in the wiki.  I had a cluster running in about 10 minutes but I would have had everything if the docs were correct!  Must try harder!

Ian
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On 11 Apr 2011, at 20:33, Dirk Koopman G1TLH wrote:

> On 11/04/11 19:19, Ian Maude wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> I am in the process of setting up on a virtual server and I have hit a
>> snag installing Curses. Using the command..
>> 
>> cpan Curses
>> 
>> grabs Curses 1.28 but it barfs on Make.
>> 
>> It seems to start well enough..
>> 
>> CPAN.pm: Going to build G/GI/GIRAFFED/Curses-1.28.tgz
>> 
>> GEN function: not applicable
>> PANELS functions: not enabled
>> MENUS functions: not enabled
>> FORMS functions: not enabled
>> 
>> Making a guess for -I and -L/-l options...
>> Guesses:
>> includes: '-I/usr/include/ncurses'
>> libs: '-lncurses'
>> Curses type: ncurses
>> Making a guess for "c-config.h"...
>> Choosing hints file 'hints/c-linux.ncurses.h'
>> Checking if your kit is complete...
>> Looks good
>> Writing Makefile for Curses
>> cp Curses.pm blib/lib/Curses.pm
>> /usr/bin/perl test.syms
>> Checking capabilities of the Ncurses libraries.
>> Set CURSES_VERBOSE environment variable to see the details of the tests.
>> 
>> It does not seem to fins any functions and ends up with..
>> 
>> cc -c -I/usr/include/ncurses -D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN
>> -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include
>> -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -O2 -g -DVERSION=\"1.28\"
>> -DXS_VERSION=\"1.28\" -fPIC "-I/usr/lib/perl/5.10/CORE" Curses.c
>> In file included from Curses.c:11:
>> c-config.h:7:21: error: ncurses.h: No such file or directory
> 
> The easy way is: sudo apt-get install libcurses-perl libnet-telnet-perl
> 
> I think that's all you need.
> 
> The reason why the CPAN compile failed is because the header files and libraries are not included as standard. You need to install them thusly:
> 
> sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev
> 
> (and you have installed 'build-essential' as well haven't you?)
> 
> Dirk
> 
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