[daip] AIPS installation problem

[Nordgren, Tyler]

Hi Folks,
	I'm installing AIPS on my Linux box and have run into a problem I
don't understand (not a surprise). By the way, since I run my Linux box
without a mail server you probably didn't get my registration info (I have
attached it to this email).

The problem seems to involve LINK not finding "-lncurses". I then get LINK
telling me I have a "wimpy compiler" and it dies of unnatural causes. I have
copied below a representative section of the screen printout right before
dying. In checking the record file I am told to check I see lots of
instances of things failing but they all seem to involve LINK and
"/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses." Any suggestions? By the way, I also
checked your installer FAQ and note that it cautions about not getting all
of the files when using ftp. My question, and I don't know if it is relavent
to my problem, is how might I have missed some files if I did a straight
download of the tarball? Does that guarantee I will get all of the files of
which you speak?

I appreciate any advice you may have. Oh, by the way, I am just a lowly
astronomer at a university whose IT department has no linux or unix
experience. As far as I know mine is the only non-windows machine on the
campus and they have no interest in providing me any support, so please bear
with me.

Cheers,

Tyler

Here is the copy of the output:

LINK      : Date is... Thu Jan  2 11:20:31 PST 2003
LINK      : Interpret  LINK \
LINK      :            /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/PREP/SETTVP.o
LINK      : as         PURGE=TRUE REPLACE=TRUE SAVE=TRUE STRIP=TRUE
LINK      : plus       /usr/local/bin/g77 \
LINK      :            /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/PREP/SETTVP.o \
LINK      :            /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/LIBR/AIPSUB/SUBLIB \ 
LINK      :            /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/LIBR/APLLINUX/SUBLIB \ 
LINK      :            /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/LIBR/YSUB/SUBLIB \ 
LINK      :            /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/LIBR/YSS/SUBLIB \ 
LINK      :            /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/LIBR/APLSUB/SUBLIB \ 
LINK      :            /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/LIBR/APLLINUX/SUBLIB \ 
LINK      :            /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/LIBR/APLSUB/SUBLIB \ 
LINK      :            /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/LIBR/APLLINUX/SUBLIB \ 
LINK      :            /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/LIBR/GNU/libreadline.a
\ 
LINK      :            -lncurses \ 
LINK      :             -s \
LINK      :            -o /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/PREP/SETTVP.EXE
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lncurses
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
LINK      : Status from /usr/local/bin/g77 is 1
LINK      : Link of    /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/PREP/SETTVP.o
LINK      : dies from wimpy compiler
LINK      : Dies of unnatural causes.
COMLNK    : Link failed!
COMLNK    : Deleted    /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/PREP/SETTVP.o
COMLNK    : Deleted    /home/loki/aips/31DEC03/LINUX/PREP/SETTVP.f
COMLNK    : Dies of unnatural causes
INSTEP4    : Failure in $AIPPGM/...
INSTEP4    : compiling/linking.
INSTEP4    : Dies of unnatural causes at Thu Jan  2 11:20:31 PST 2003
AipsWiz: Error: INSTEP4 failed, no point in proceeding.

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