lib dependencies

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 02:28:59PM -0500, Tom Wilson wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I'm trying to install some printer drivers and rpm keeps failing with a
>dependency for libncurses.so.4.  I have libncurses.so.5 on the machine. 
>Is it safe to use the --nodeps options to get this installed or should I
>downgrade to libncurses.so.4?

Do you have the ncurses RPM(s) installed?  The --nodeps'' may work, but
it's not necessarily the Right Thing(tm) to do.

Bill
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