libcurses/libncurses problem

[Giulio Morgan <mickle@panix.com>]

I believe I have a problem in my libcurses/libncurses configuration. I have a
woody system, upgraded to from potatoo, upgraded to from slink. Following is my
directory structure showing the relevant files.

from /lib
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           18 Aug 26  1999 libcurses.so.1 -> libcurses.so.1.0.0
  -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        52641 May 18  1995 libcurses.so.1.0.0xo
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           19 Jul  5  2000 libtermcap.so.2 -> libtermcap.so.2.0.8
  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root        10500 Feb  3  2000 libtermcap.so.2.0.8
  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       242644 Oct 30  1998 libncurses.so.3.4
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 May 27  2000 libncurses.so.4 -> libncurses.so.4.2
  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       238700 Mar  5  2000 libncurses.so.4.2
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Nov 27 08:26 libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.0

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from /usr/lib
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           12 Jul  5  2000 libcurses.a -> libncurses.a
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           13 Jul  5  2000 libcurses.so -> libncurses.so
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Nov 25 22:59 libcurses.so.1 -> /lib/libncurses.so.5
  -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       372674 Mar  5  2000 libncurses.a
  lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Jul  5  2000 libncurses.so -> /lib/libncurses.so.4

I think this is wrong because I am not able to launch an application (octree -
cad program) which I know works for other debian users, and which I believe to
be properly installed on my system.

If someone can suggest simply how to modify by hand the files, I would
appreciate it. Otherwise, Should I 
 apt-get -purge remove ncurses-base ncurses-bin ncurse-term, and then 
 apt-get install those same packages

Any help much appreciated.

-- 
Giulio Morgan
mickle@panix.com