Packaging Bash Commander for Debian

[Philipp Huebner]

Hello there,
I'm thinking on packaging Bash Commander for Debian.

I've compiled and installed the stable release on Debian Lenny.
It working so far, but I don't know how to turn on the two file
panels.
What exactly means "by pressing ^O" ? Is it CTRL + O? Or ESC + O?

Please help, as soon as I have prove that bashc works properly I will
start the packaging.

Regards,
Philipp Hübner

[Serge V.]

Hello Philipp!

> I'm thinking on packaging Bash Commander for Debian.

Oh, great, it will be very useful package.

> I've compiled and installed the stable release on Debian Lenny.
> It working so far, but I don't know how to turn on the two file
> panels.
> What exactly means "by pressing ^O" ? Is it CTRL + O? Or ESC + O?

It is CTRL + O. Or just press Enter on empty command line.
You need also set a COMMANDER variable to enable panel mode.
Read http://groups.google.com/group/bashc/web/faq for more
information.

You should have libncursesw5-dev to be installed before compiling
bashc.
Without this library, the bashc will compile with internal libtermcap,
but it could
not use visual panel mode.
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Best wishes,
Serge

["Philipp Hübner @ SLZ"]

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Hey,

Serge V. schrieb:

>> I've compiled and installed the stable release on Debian Lenny.
>> It working so far, but I don't know how to turn on the two file
>> panels.
>> What exactly means "by pressing ^O" ? Is it CTRL + O? Or ESC + O?
>
> It is CTRL + O. Or just press Enter on empty command line.
> You need also set a COMMANDER variable to enable panel mode.
> Read http://groups.google.com/group/bashc/web/faq for more
> information.

I had already done that.

> You should have libncursesw5-dev to be installed before compiling
> bashc.
> Without this library, the bashc will compile with internal libtermcap,
> but it could
> not use visual panel mode.

That seems to be an important hint.
Now I have installed libncursesw5-dev, but configure still choses the
internal libtermcap, even if I run ./configure --with-curses .

Any more hints that could help me?

Regards,
Philipp Huebner
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[Serge V.]

>> You should have libncursesw5-dev to be installed before compiling
>> bashc.

> Now I have installed libncursesw5-dev, but configure still choses the
> internal libtermcap, even if I run ./configure --with-curses .
>
> Any more hints that could help me?

Hmm... Please try to install also libncurses5-dev and reconfigure it
again.
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Serge

["Philipp Hübner @ SLZ"]

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Hey,

Serge V. schrieb:

Still no luck. Except for the libtermcap-problem the output of configure
looks good, nothing's missing or not not working as it should.

On which distributions did you test it where it worked?

Regards,
Philipp Hübner

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[Serge V.]

Tested on Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04.
Would you please send me your config.status and config.log files?
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Regards,
Serge

["Philipp Hübner @ SLZ"]

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Serge V. schrieb:

> Tested on Ubuntu 7.10 and 8.04.
> Would you please send me your config.status and config.log files?

Here they are.

Regards,
Philipp Hübner
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[Serge V.]

It seems that problem is in --with-curses option.
Try to configure without it. To check, run:
grep TERMCAP_LIB config.log

Correct value is:
TERMCAP_LIB='-ltermcap'

After compiling bashc, run "ldd bashc". It will output a list of
shared libraries used. There must be libncurses.so.5 present somwhere
in list.
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Regards,
Serge

["Philipp Hübner @ SLZ"]

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Serge V. schrieb:

> It seems that problem is in --with-curses option.
> Try to configure without it. To check, run:

Done.

> grep TERMCAP_LIB config.log
>
> Correct value is:
> TERMCAP_LIB='-ltermcap'

This is the case.

> After compiling bashc, run "ldd bashc". It will output a list of
> shared libraries used. There must be libncurses.so.5 present somwhere
> in list.

This is also the case.

Unfortunately I still can't turn on the file panels.

I run bashc with 'source /usr/local/etc/bash_commander'.
Depending on whether I'm root or some local user, the prompt-colour is
brown or blue.
But in both cases the file panels don't turn up.
Just pressing 'Enter' results in a new line with the same promt,
pressing CTRL + 0 results in nothing's happening.

The behaviour is the same under Debian Sid and Debian Lenny.

Regards,
Philipp Huebner

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[Serge V.]

> Unfortunately I still can't turn on the file panels.

> The behaviour is the same under Debian Sid and Debian Lenny.

Then we chould check your terminal. What is the value of $TERM?
The size of terminal window is also crirical: it must be at least 6
lines and 50 columns.
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Best wishes,
Serge

["Philipp Hübner @ SLZ"]

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Serge V. schrieb:

I tried yakuake ($TERM -> xterm),
plain linux console (tty1, $TERM -> linux),
and kde konsole ($TERM -> xterm).

Each of them with far more colums and lines as your mentioned minimum.

Regards,
Philipp Huebner
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["Philipp Hübner @ SLZ"]

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Hey,
no more ideas?

Would pe a pity if we couldn't get bashc working on Debian.

Kind regards,

Philipp Huebner
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