PHP 7-ncurses Libraries

Technical Issues & Assistance
#1

Hi Everyone - I’m brand new here to Archlabs (I’ve been using Fedora for the past 14 years (a few as a Fedora Ambassador) but wanted to try a new distro and a little challenge for a new PC I just got (Thinkpad X1 Carbon) …

I love Archlabs and am using I3 (which I was also using on Fedora) … I can find answers to most of my questions from this forum and the internet … except for this one:

I am a PHP programmer and have installed PHP7 (the latest) on archlabs - very easy and no real problems. However, I use PHP to program ncurses interfaces (did you know you could do that? Most PHP programmers don’t realize that there is a library for ncurses development). I have written several server monitoring apps for myself in php/ncurses … however, when I go to install the libraries on Archlabs, I can’t seem to find all the components in the various repos (Here’s a walk-through from stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39151234/install-ncurses-extensions-on-php7-0 )

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I don’t want to go back to Fedora as I really like the interface/the feel/ the arch-ness and all the other stuff of Archlabs …

Thanks

Zack

(P.S. Also thanks for the great forum - I’ve been able to answer most of my other questions just by searching the Archlab forum)

#2

Welcome!

Have you searched the AUR? In pacli you can start with selection 21 and search php-ncurses

Hopefully that is the one you need.

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#3

Well, why didn’t I think of that!!! Thanks … It did install php-ncurses.

For some reason it will run certain programs of mine but I’m getting segmentation errors when running others. Not sure if this is a php error or a problem with the archlab repo. I’ll have to look into it … but thanks so much for the pointer!

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