On Sun, Aug 01, 2010 at 07:31:28PM +0200, Christoph Kukulies wrote: > [snip] > > I opened a can of worms obviously. On the target system (debian) the > stock mutt-1.5.20.tgz doesn't compile because > it can't find libcurses. I have libncurses5 installed. Maybe patches > are required for debian?
On Debian the files necessary to compile a program are provided
in a separate package, called libncurses5-dev. You will need
those *-dev packages for all libraries mutt depends on.
But before doing this, try mutt 1.5.20 from backports.org.
> A newer package for debian (unless I compile from sources) doesn't
> seem to exist.
>
> Any debian experts here? I'm getting error 404 when trying to
> install further packages (e.g. strace) . Maybe I got to extend
> /etc/apt/sources.list?
The only thing you need in there should be something like this
(if you use Debian Lenny):
deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ lenny main
> Christoph
Hope this helps,
Simon
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