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.
This is what I get when I try to install libncurses-dev kold:~# aptitude install libncurses-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done Note: selecting "libncurses5-dev" instead of the virtual package "libncurses-dev" The following NEW packages will be automatically installed: tzdata The following packages will be automatically REMOVED: kernel-image-2.4.27-3-386 The following packages have been kept back: adduser analog apache2 apache2-mpm-prefork apache2-utils apt apt- utils aptitude at base-passwd bash bc bin86 bind9-host binutils bison bsdmainutils bsdutils bzip2 console-tools coreutils cpio cpp cpp-3.3 cron dash dc debianutils dhcp-client discover1 dmidecode dnsutils dpkg dpkg-dev dselect e2fslibs e2fsprogs eject exim4 exim4-base exim4- config exim4-daemon-light fdutils file findutils finger flex ftp g++ g+ +-3.3 gcc gcc-3.3 gcc-3.3-base gdb gettext-base gnupg grep groff-base grub gzip hostname ifupdown info initscripts iptables iputils-ping ispell klogd less libacl1 libapache2-mod-perl2 libapache2-mod-php4 libapache2-mod-python libattr1 libblkid1 libbz2-1.0 libcomerr2 libconsole libcurses-perl libdb1-compat libdb3 libdb4.2 libdb4.3 libdiscover1 libexpat1 libfreetype6 libgcc1 libgcrypt11 libgd2-noxpm libgdbm3 libgpg-error0 libgpmg1 libhtml-parser-perl libidn11 libjpeg62 libkrb53 libldap2 liblocale-gettext-perl liblockfile1 liblzo1 libmagic1 libncursesw5 libnss-db libopencdk8 libpam-modules libpam0g libpcre3 libperl5.8 libpng12-0 libpopt0 libreadline5 libsasl2 libselinux1 libsepol1 libssl0.9.7 libstdc++5 libstdc++5-3.3-dev libstdc++6 libterm-readkey-perl libtext-charwidth-perl libtext-iconv-perl libtextwrap1 libusb-0.1-4 libuuid1 libwrap0 libzzip-0-12 login logrotate lpr lsof m4 make man-db module-init-tools modutils mount mpack mtools mtr-tiny mutt nano ncurses-base ncurses-bin netbase netcat nfs- common nvi openbsd-inetd openssl passwd patch pciutils perl perl-base perl- modules php4-common pidentd portmap ppp pppoe pppoeconf procmail procps psmisc python python-newt reportbug rsync sed ssh strace sysklogd sysvinit tar tasksel tcpd tcsh telnet texinfo traceroute usbutils util-linux vim vim-common w3m wget whiptail whois zlib1g The following NEW packages will be installed: libncurses5-dev tzdata The following packages will be REMOVED: kernel-image-2.4.27-3-386 The following packages will be upgraded: libc6 libc6-dev libncurses5 locales 4 packages upgraded, 2 newly installed, 1 to remove and 189 not upgraded. Need to get 13.5MB of archives. After unpacking 20.8MB will be freed. Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?] Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]