[maemo-users] ncurses

[From: Peter Flynn]

Peter Flynn wrote:
> I've been rearranging my SD cards and I wanted to install Emacs_22.1-1 
> (this is for OS-2008) to replace the older version.
> 
> It's looking for ncurses-base and libxaw7 but I can't find any that 
> install. I have the maemo-Extras repo installed, and I can see 
> ncurses-base in there, but it doesn't appear in the App Manager. If I 
> download ncurses-base-5.4-3.osso1.deb and try to install it manually, I 
> get the error Incompatible application package.
> 
> Is there a working .deb for OS2008 for these packages?

Seems so. I used apt-get install ncurses and it found a copy in Lithuania.