glibc, ldconfig, and ignorance (attachement)

[Net Llama!]

On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Tim Wunder wrote:
> On 9/17/2002 2:59 PM, someone claiming to be Net Llama! wrote:
> > Well, this seems a bit worrisome:
> > ldconfig: Cannot stat /usr/lib/libcurses.so: No such file or directory
> >
> > And your kdelibs seem to be a bit mangled, or at least you're lacking
> > symlinks in places that should have them.  Other than that, everything
> > appears to be ok.
> >
> >
>
> $ ll /usr/lib/libcurses.so
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Aug  5  2001 /usr/lib/libcurses.so -> libncurses.so.5.2
> $ ldd -v /usr/lib/libcurses.so
> ldd: /usr/lib/libcurses.so: No such file or directory
> $ ll /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.2
> ls: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.2: No such file or directory
> $ ll /usr/lib/libncurses.so*
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           27 Aug  5  2001 /usr/lib/libncurses.so -> ../../lib/libncurses.so.5.2
>
> hmmmm
> What's libcurses/libncurses s'posed to do?

rpm -qi ncurses:
The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating
character screens with reasonable optimization.


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