On Tuesday 22 October 2002 3:51 am, Jim Hubbard wrote:
> When I try to install a 3rd party app on MDK9, I get this message:
>
> /tmp/INcarbin-2129: error while loading shared libraries:
> libncurses.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> directory
>
>
> After some checking, I discovered that libncurses.so.4 is provided by
> ncurses-5.2-12.2, but not by the version in MDK9, which is
> ncurses-5.2-27. Apparently, this package has forked somehow and now
> libncurses.so.4 is part of the ncurses4 package, but I can't find an MDK
> rpm for it.
>
> What can I do to provide libncurses.so.4?
Much the same happened with me when I tried to use notlame (an mp3 encoder),
so what I did was make a symbolic link (as root) to the 5 lib;
ln -s /lib/libncurses.so.5.2 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4
Worked fine after that, although I do not know if the 5lib is fully backward
compatible with the 4lib.
Robin
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