seeking advice on installing filepro on linux mint 18.3

[Fairlight]

Funny...  My impression from over the years was not that it was
desktop-ish, but that it was a minimalist rescue CD.

m->


On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 07:05:45PM +0000, Walter Vaughan Jr via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> Kinda wondering about why no one is looking at the root issue. Mint is just a "desktopier" version of Ubuntu.
> Should be lots of ubuntu/Debian stuff in the mailing list archives...
> 
> Like http://mailman.celestial.com/pipermail/filepro-list/2016-March/032554.html
> 
> 
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> From: Filepro-list <filepro-list-bounces+wvaughan=steelerubber.com at lists.celestial.com> On Behalf Of Fairlight via Filepro-list
> Sent: Monday, December 30, 2019 2:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: seeking advice on installing filepro on linux mint 18.3
> 
> For CentOS, it's compat-libtermcap as of CentOS 7.  If it's 32-bit, that won't actually work because CentOS or Red Hat screwed up.  I had to roll a custom one for 32-bit.
> 
> That package doesn't exist on CentOS 8...at all, for any bit-width.  One would need to lift the C7 SRPM and build it on C8.  Not difficult, if you know what needs doing.
> 
> As far as mint, no clue what package manager they use; I've never touched mint in my life.  Never needed to.
> 
> m->
> 
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 30, 2019 at 09:40:46AM -0800, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list thus spoke:
> > On Mon, Dec 30, 2019, oldtony via Filepro-list wrote:
> > >Hi Experts - seeking advise on installing filepro (version 5.0.14D4 ) 
> > >on linux mint 18.3. the install fails saying it needs libtermacp.so.2.
> > 
> > This library may well be part of the ncurses development package.
> > 
> > I'm not familiar with Linux mint, but would guess that it uses the apt 
> > package management system.  I always have to RTFM when I'm playing 
> > with my Raspberry PI to figure out how this works.
> > 
> > >now for Centos 6.9 i have found the following works:
> > >
> > ># yum install libxml2.i686#  yum install libstdc++.so.6# yum install 
> > >compat-libtermcap.i686# yum install unixODBC unixODBC-devel 
> > >libtool-ltdl libtool-ltdl-devel
> > >
> > ># ln -s /usr/lib/libodbc.so.2 /usr/lib/libodbc.so.1
> > >
> > >but yum does not work for linux mint.
> > >
> > >any suggestions how to proceed ?
> > >
> > >thanks for any help
> > >
> > >old tony
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