Bug 6941

Summary:	ncurses 5.0 isn't really backward-compatible
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Pekka Savola <pekkas>
Component:	ncurses	Assignee:	Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1
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OS:	Linux
URL:	ftp://rawhide.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ncurses-5.0-2.i386.rpm
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Description Pekka Savola 1999-11-12 07:16:32 UTC

I upgraded to ncurses-5.0-1 and every curses-program stopped
working complaining missing shared libraries.

Adding symlinks for old ncurses versions in /usr/lib by hand fixed the
problem.

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rpm -V ncurses
missing    /usr/lib/libform.so.4
missing    /usr/lib/libmenu.so.4
....L...   /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4
missing    /usr/lib/libpanel.so.4
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Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 1999-11-12 17:59:59 UTC

Thanks for reporting - fixed in 5.0-2.