On Tue Sep 22 1998, Javier Sturman wrote:
> I'm using RedHat 5 and I want to upgrade to ncurses 4.
> Which is the best (problemless?) way to do it?
> I was looking into rpm man to list all programs that need (actual)
> ncurses, but I didn't realize how to do it.
On my redhat 5.1 box...
% rpm -qa | grep ncurses
ncurses-4.2-8
ncurses-devel-4.2-8
ncurses3-1.9.9e-6
So for RH5.1 you don't need to do anything... you are using ncurses-4
already.
If you have a RH5.0 box, then you might have to --force remove the old
ncurses-3 packages to ignore the dependencies (try to do it without --force
and you'll get a list of the dependent packages along with an error
message).
Then install those packages with -i.
Using -U to do an upgrade might not work very cleanly as the old ncurses-3
libraries might end up clashing with the new ncurses-4 package.
The ncurses3 package consists only of the shared libraries which are likely
to live in a different place, and which are there for any "legacy" programs
that may still need them.
Cheers
Tony
