Re: broken ncurses?
I had a similar problem a while back when I upgraded ncurses. Had to
manually delete the existing soft links for ncurses, before running
ldconfig. Then all worked OK.
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Britton wrote:
>
> I suspect a broken ncurses setup is the root of my problems. The
> ncurses-base and ncurses-bin packages install fine, but when trying
> to reinstall ncurses itself I got the following:
>
>
> # dpkg --install ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-8.deb
> (Reading database ... 28942 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace ncurses3.4 1.9.9g-8 (using ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-8.deb)
> ...
> Unpacking replacement ncurses3.4 ...
> Setting up ncurses3.4 (1.9.9g-8) ...
> ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/lib/libncurses.so.3.4 (No such file or
> directory), skipping
>
>
> I suspect that in trying to fix this I managed to annihilate my
> ncurses.3.4.so file, as bedore something like this showed up (I think in
> /lib), but now find gives:
>
> $ find / -name "ncurses*" -print
> /usr/doc/copyright/ncurses-term
> /usr/doc/ncurses3.4
> /usr/doc/ncurses-base
> /usr/doc/ncurses-bin
> /usr/doc/ncurses3.0
> find: /usr/share/emacs/20.2/site-lisp: Permission denied
> find: /etc/ppp: Permission denied
> find: /var/spool/cron/atjobs: Permission denied
> find: /var/spool/cron/atspool: Permission denied
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses-base.preinst
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses-base.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses3.0.postinst
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses3.0.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses-bin.preinst
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses-bin.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses-term.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses3.4.postinst
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses3.4.list
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses3.4.shlibs
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses-base.postinst
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses-base.conffiles
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/ncurses3.0.shlibs
>
>
> Anyone know what I should do to rectify this situation?
>
> Britton Kerin
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