Re: libcurses problem

Posted in 2004

Thomas Dickey — Sun, 13 Jun 2004 21:10:05 -0000 — source: Usenet: comp.databases.informix

Richard Harnden <richard.harnden@lineone.net> wrote: > Neil Truby wrote: >> "Richard Harnden" <richard.harnden@lineone.net> wrote in message >> news:40c6e434$0$6329$65c69314@mercury.nildram.net... > [snip] >> dell:/lib # cd /usr/lib >> dell:/usr/lib # ll libcurses* >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Jun 8 13:22 libcurses.so -> >> libncurses.so.5.2 > Okay, but ... >> dell:/usr/lib # ll libncurses* >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 337823 Oct 16 2002 libncursesw.so.5.2 > Here's you problem, you have a libncurses*w* but no libncurses. > ie, libcurses.so doesn't point to anywhere. > I'm not sure what libncursesw is ... wide-chars, maybe ? > Are you sure you installed the correct libncurses rpm ? > You could always point libcurses.so to libncurses.so.4.2 nope (bad advice) > or rename libncursesw. even worse. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net