On Mar 5, 4:20 pm, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Mar 2007 12:39:42 -0800 > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > I'm a long time RH/Fedora sysadmin/user and have decided to use Debian > > 3.1r5 on my server at home. I downloaded the bootable Network CD > > (180MB) and then via the config after boot I installed additional > > packages. > > > Everything is working fine and I installed vim 6.3 (current stable > > version) via aptitude and all works well. Except that I want vim 7. > > It is available in the testing and unstable repositories, but when I > > do an "aptitude install vim" it wants to remove my current kernel. > > I would guess that this is because it depends on libc6 >= 2.3.6-6, but > I may be totally wrong. > > > I also tried to install vim 7 from source, but when compiling it > > determined that I didn't have ncurses installed. Again aptitude wants > > to delete my current running kernel but didn't say anything about > > installing ncurses. > > Did you install libncurses-dev? It contains the development files for > building ncurses apps.
I did not, but my main question is, why is it trying to delete my kernel and not install a new one? Thanks, Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
