ps: I forgot to mention running ldconfig after making the link. On Tuesday 22 October 2002 10:46 am, Robin Ballantine wrote: > 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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