Need help installing ncurses 5.2

[Alon Solell]

Hi,

 

My hosting provider gave me half the world, he gave GCC,... but no access to /usr/include/  (header files anyone?).

He gave me IMAP,.. but didn't open port 143 (you want to connect to the server...why?)...

 

So,....

 

I overcame some of the difficulties they graciously amounted infront of me,..(I created my own /include directory

with copied over header files) and created a tunneling - ssh2 port forwarding to connect to the imap.

 

BUT... (what a surprise! there is a but here)

 

Now,. I've been wanting somthing that is truely a challange.  I want lynx!

Considering the above mentioned problems,... and the fact that I know just about enough to get me into trouble with linux/unix

shell,... I now seek the help of the experts on installing lynx.

 

I don't have 'root' or 'su', but I do have my group rights and chmod anything to anthing within my 'tree' of directories.

 

I ran the ./configure for the 2.8.4 and .. stopped dead cold on the curses.

So I figured,. Ok.. I have no clue what those curses are.. but I'll take the extra step and install them.

 

Boom.  I hit a wall.

 

ncurses-5.2 wants libraries! <-----------==========*****************

 

This is where I got stuck.  I don't know how to set the search paths so that needed libraries will be looked at in the

'right' directories. The paths that I want to be setup which are different than the no-rights-to-read <system> paths are:

 

/home/include

/home/lib

/home/bin

/home/src (if needed at all)

/home/obj (if needed at all)

 

I have full control over /home. (can I be redundant or what?!)

 

I don't mind setting you up with a shell account (telnet/ssh2) so that you can come in and try to figure out what the heck

is going on.

 

With that,.. I hope I'm not overburdening (is there such a word?)  you with too much info and with actually no time to actually

contribute towards this.

 

But I do appreciate your assistance with this and for taking the time even just to say: "Sorry pal,.. too busy".

 

-Alon.

 

Alon Solell
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