Hey Alan!

 AI> I'm having issues.. something about tinfo and I am not sure how 
 AI> to proceed.

That is a ncurses compatibility issue.  golded probably requires ncurses-5 which has become obsolete as of late.  See https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter08/ncurses.html for an excellent schpiel on how to potentially fix it.

Life is good,
Maurice

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