lib dependencies- resolved

Tom Wilson twilson
Mon May 17 11:44:51 PDT 2004


Thanks for all the tips everyone.  I went ahead and installed the
ncurse4 as suggested below and it took care of it.  

--Tom Wilson

On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 22:30, Klaus-Peter Schrage wrote:
> 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



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