help with installing lynx

Charles S. Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Sun Feb 11 20:32:00 GMT 2001


Tennessee Leeuwenburg wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to install lynx, using the precompiled version from the cygwin
> page, lynx 2.8.2r1.tar.gz. It tells me to go download ncurses, but I
> couldn't find it at the locations mentioned, and I also think I remember
> seeing it in installing cygwin anyway.

ncurses was added to the official cygwin distribution a while back -- if
you don't already have it installed, (check /etc/setup/installed.db) use
setup.exe to download & install it.

> The errormessage I get is  "Error
> opening terminal: cygwin". What do I need to do to make it work?

ncurses, probably.  :-)

--Chuck

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