Bug 124407
| Summary: | Missing libncurses.so.4 library | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Eric LAGALISSE <eric.lagalisse> |
| Component: | ncurses4 | Assignee: | Eido Inoue <havill> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | redhat-bugzilla |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2004-05-28 17:14:58 UTC | Type: | --- |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Which Red Hat package from RHEL3 needs ncurses4 (libncurses.so.4)? I still can't find any RHEL3 supported package in that needs ncurses4... I'm installing a third party software named "Interpel" used to transfert data from MVS to Linux. When i install this software it need this package. Here is the log : [root@clos1150 interpel]# more /etc/redhat-release Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 3 (Taroon) [root@clos1150 interpel]# ./pelsetup /transfert/interpel/bin/pelsetup: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory IMHO third party products aren't suported, but you could try to rebuild http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/9/en/os/i386/SRPMS/ncurses4-5.0-11.src.rpm (rpmbuild --rebuild ncurses4-5.0-11.src.rpm). I understand but that mean there's no backward compatibility for this library provided under RHEL3 ? Thanks i'll try to rebuild it. Rebuild successfull. Third party application run fine. But just for my information i would like to know if backward compatibility for this library will or will not be provided. If someone can answer... Well, theoretically there should backward compatibility be - especially at supported systems - at the other hand, Red Hat has then to give support to this applications, which costs money. Adrian, do we get official backward compatibility for that issue or not (would be fine if)? The missing library is part of the ncurses4 compatibility library, which is not included in RHEL3. The decision to include a package in a particular distro is usually done by filing a bug under the "distribution" component, as this decides how our build process inherits and pulls in packages for a particular release. While I can definitely see the need for ncurses4 in RHEL 2.1, I believe a decision was made for RHEL 3 to not include it, based on two reasons: #1 none of the certified software needs/uses it, and #2 RHEL 3 and beyond is UTF-8 on the console, which ncurses4 does not handle, and would require RHEL to run in a locale which would render all other modern UTF-8 friendly ncurses apps inoperable. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: I'm trying to install a software that requiere package libncurses.so.4 but unfortunatly i cannot find any "ncurses4...." package available for this release of Redhat. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install a product that need libncurses.so.4 2. 3. Additional info: