Is this a bug? was: Re: broken ncurses?
I had the same experience as Mr. Mills. I manually deleted a broken
ncurses link /usr/lib/libncurses.so.3.4 I think it was, and the ld-related
warning which used to come up on 'dpkg --install ncurses3.4_1.9.9g-8.deb'
dissapeared. dselect now works again. This problem began with the libc6
upgrade, during which I may have made mistakes. Should dpkg report an
error in this case instread of a warning, or are there too many simmilar
situations in which the warning is irrelevant?
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Britton Kerin
On Sun, 29 Mar 1998, W Paul Mills wrote:
> 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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