> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to install the ncurses package so I can install the lynx
> package. First of all, if you let the make script automatically download
> the 'ncurses-1.9.9g.tar.gz' file from the master site 
> <ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/gnu/ncurses/>, you get a checksum error. I 
> tried running it without the checksum verification, but then I get 
> invalid tar file message. 

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Have you considered insatlling slang instead and compiling lynx
for netbsd-slang?  It's much nicer, especially if you have
color.

see http://space.mit.edu/~davis/slang.html

and

http://space.mit.edu/~davis/images/lynx.gif

for a screenshot.