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Re: libcurses/libncurses problem



It looks like you tried to install the libncurses5-dev from potato on
a system running woody or sid.  What do you have in /etc/apt/sources.list?
You should not have to change symlinks.

Bob

On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:58:20PM -0500, Giulio Morgan wrote:
> 
> Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies:
>   libncurses5-dev: Depends: libncurses5 (= 5.0-6.0potato1) but 5.0-8 is to be
>   installed
> E: Sorry, broken packages
> 
> I then created the  synb link manually per Christopher's suggestion, and this
> had no effect (so I rm'ed the "libncurses" file). Then,
> 
> # dpkg -l | grep ncurses
> ii  libncurses4    4.2-9          Shared libraries for terminal handling
> ii  libncurses4-de 4.2-9          Developer's libraries and docs for ncurses
> ii  libncurses5    5.0-8          Shared libraries for terminal handling
> ii  ncurses-base   5.0-8          Descriptions of common terminal types
> ii  ncurses-bin    5.0-8          Terminal-related programs and man pages
> ii  ncurses-term   5.0-8          Additional terminal type definitions
> ii  ncurses3.4     1.9.9g-8.11    Video terminal manipulation - shared librari
> ii  typist         2.3.1-1        A simple ncurses typing tutor
> 
> Sorry for asking what must be an obvious question, but...Does it appear from
> the directory structure included in the original post (included again below for
> convenience) that there is something obviously wrong -
> /lib/libcurses.so.1.0.0xo? 
> 
> Thanks for your time and help
>  
> -- 
> Giulio Morgan
> mickle@panix.com
> 
> from /lib
>   root     root           18 Aug 26  1999 libcurses.so.1 -> libcurses.so.1.0.0
>   root     root        52641 May 18  1995 libcurses.so.1.0.0xo
>   root     root           19 Jul  5  2000 libtermcap.so.2 -> libtermcap.so.2.0.8
>   root     root        10500 Feb  3  2000 libtermcap.so.2.0.8
>   root     root       242644 Oct 30  1998 libncurses.so.3.4
>   root     root       238700 Mar  5  2000 libncurses.so.4.2
>   root     root           17 Nov 27 08:26 libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.0
> 
> -----
> from /usr/lib
>   root     root           12 Jul  5  2000 libcurses.a -> libncurses.a
>   root     root           13 Jul  5  2000 libcurses.so -> libncurses.so
>   root     root           20 Nov 25 22:59 libcurses.so.1 -> /lib/libncurses.so.5
>   root     root       372674 Mar  5  2000 libncurses.a
>   root     root           20 Jul  5  2000 libncurses.so -> /lib/libncurses.so.4
> 
> perms removed for legibility
> 
> 
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