lib dependencies

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

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?

No need to downgrade, I think. Just install ncurses4, a backwards 
compatible version of ncurses.
On my RH 8.0 system I have

[kp at localhost kp]$ rpm -qa |grep ncurses
ncurses-5.2-28
ncurses4-5.0-9
ncurses-devel-5.2-28

Klaus