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https://github.com/ruby/curses ^[ 1 ] was http://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de

An ncurses library for Ruby.

• 2006-07-25 – 1.1 on (distribution not recorded)

2006-07-25 – 1.1 ∞

ncurses-ruby is small and easy to set up:

• a) Using your package manager (if you are so lucky) with something like apt-get install ncurses-ruby

• b) At the commandline, do a gem install ncurses

  • Make sure that you have rubygems and the Ruby header files (usually called ruby-devel), both hopefully from your package manager.

• c) Build download ncurses-ruby from source (what I did)

  • Make sure you have the Ruby header files (usually called ruby-devel).

Building from source ∞

tar -xvvjr ncurses-ruby-1.1.tar.bz2
cd ncurses-ruby-1.1
ruby extconf.rb
make
su
make install

What I did:

su
# Install the ruby development headers:
apt-get install ruby-devel
tar -xvvjr ncurses-ruby-1.1.tar.bz2
cd ncurses-ruby-1.1
ruby extconf.rb
make
# Resolve an issue with "install" not being used, and my not having "ginstall":
ln -s /usr/bin/install /usr/bin/ginstall
make install
# Clean up:
cd ..
rm -rf ncurses-ruby-1.1

ncurses-ruby on the Sharp Zaurus SL-series ∞

(Sharp Zaurus SL-series)

They made 0.9.1 for the ARM, but it seems to have been abandoned since then.

I seem to be unable to get this going. I think I need the ncurses-devel headers.