Resumed installation and ncurses-devel

[Martin Licht]

Hello,

when I tried to install julia on my home noteboo, running with Linux Mint, the process got interrupted several times due to packages missing on my machine. I eventually stopped trying after it demanded the package 'ncurses-devel', which I could not find.

So there is a question and a suggestion:
Q: Is it possible to run the installer with the option of resuming a previous installation process? It took my machine half an hour before the process aborted at the given point.
S: It would be fairly nice if the installer downloaded all external resources and checked for dependencies right at the beginning of the installation, instead of right in between with the risk of aborting.

Finally, can somebody help me to fix this dependency?

[Patrick O'Leary]

It sounds like you're compiling from the git repository, not just installing. There are Ubuntu packages available from the Julia downloads page if you'd prefer: http://julialang.org/downloads/

See also:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia#ubuntu

And elsewhere in the readme, under "ncurses build error":

"Install the libncurses5 development package

• Debian/Ubuntu: apt-get install libncurses5-dev"

Finally, the build process is just make, so nothing will rebuild unless it has to when you run make again. If you install that package and run make again, it should finish pretty quickly.