[GRASSLIST:1447] Re: Beta10 startup

[Rich Shepard]

On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Kirk Schmidt wrote:

> I verified that ncurses.so.5 was installed on my system, I checked in the
> usr/lib/ directory and a file called libncurses.so.4.0  was present.  I
> copied the file and called it libncurses .so.5 and my problems were solved.

  I have a similar problem, but it has so far resisted a solution. My RH 6.2
system (actually 6.1 with all the packages upgraded to the latest and
greatest) has libncurses.so.4 installed (plus the old glibc5 versions of 3
and 1.x). But, when I try to install ncurses-5.2-5.i386.rpm, I cannot.

  If I use the upgrade (-U) option, I'm told that too many apps require the
.4 version. So, I tried the install option (-i) to add the new version, too.
That failed because of conflicts with a version (ncurses-5.0-2) that cannot
be found in any form on my system.

  I know this is a linux problem, not a GRASS problem, and I've asked for
help from the local users group. My frustration is that it should be a
no-brainer to add a new version of the ncurses library without removing the
older version. Turns out to be a major project. Sigh.

Rich

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