Description of problem: The programs that follows with the proftpd package cant find the libraries for curses support. Other program using ncurses works just fine and i have reproduced this error on three diffrent fedoraC1 istallations. both ncurses and proftpd is installed with 'yum install name'. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): [root@abraham root]# proftpd --version - ProFTPD Version 1.2.9 How reproducible: [root@abraham root]# ls -la /usr/lib/libncurses* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 407512 Sep 11 18:04 /usr/lib/libncurses.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 116504 Sep 11 18:04 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 519566 Sep 11 18:04 /usr/lib/libncurses_g.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Dec 5 16:02 /usr/lib/libncurses.so -> libncurses.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Dec 5 16:02 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2743560 Sep 11 18:03 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 116504 Sep 11 18:04 /usr/lib/libncurses++w.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 450988 Sep 11 18:04 /usr/lib/libncursesw.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 581384 Sep 11 18:04 /usr/lib/libncursesw_g.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Dec 5 16:02 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so -> libncursesw.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Dec 5 16:02 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5 -> libncursesw.so.5.3 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 3082725 Sep 11 18:03 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5.3 [root@abraham root]# ldconfig --print-cache | grep libncurses libncursesw.so.5 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5 libncursesw.so (libc6) => /usr/lib/libncursesw.so libncurses.so.5 (libc6) => /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 libncurses.so (libc6) => /usr/lib/libncurses.so [root@abraham root]# ftptop ftptop: no curses or ncurses library on this system
this is not a problem with ncurses. it's a problem with the proftpd build process. obviously, ncurses is there, and other packages that depend on it find and link to it.