Comment 6 for bug 1783564

Hi John,

John Flood wrote:
> Unfortunately, the link to ncurses-ruby in the error message (http
> ://ncurses-ruby.berlios.de/) doesn't work, but this one does:

Yes, the BerliOS code hosting is dead for quite some years now.

> https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/ncursesw-ruby

That's also what the ruby-ncurses package has set as Homepage.

> However, I had trouble installing it until I ran
>
> sudo apt-get install ruby-dev zlib1g-dev liblzma-dev
>
> as recommended here:
>
> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44239377/cant-install-rails-on-
> linux-failed-to-build-gem-native-extension-with-ruby-2
>
> Then "gem install ncursesw" worked (after cloning the above github
> repository) and I could open the sample files for tpp.

That's interesting. So since the ruby-ncurses package is built from
the same source (just maybe a different version), it's either a bug in
the version shipped with Ubuntu 18.04 or something in the way Ubuntu
builds that package. (As mentioned before: I can't reproduce this in
Debian Unstable where Ubuntu takes most of the packages, at least tpp,
from.)

And if you look at
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ruby-ncurses you probably
see the reason for it:

#1775673 ruby-ncurses is broken in ubuntu 18.04
#1787763 ruby-ncurses is broken: try ruby -e 'require "ncurses"'

Will probably merge all these bug reports.

  Regards, Axel
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