When upgrade the ncurses package, the process fail: root@sdelamor sdelamor]# rpm -U ncurses-4.2-10.i386.rpm unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/share/terminfo/a/avatar: -2147483632: Operation not permitted error: ncurses-4.2-10.i386.rpm cannot be installed
The failed package came from ftp.redhat.com
What version of ncurses were you running previously? Also, what sort of file is /usr/share/terminfo/a/avatar - normal file, link, or directory?
I was able to upgrade a 5.1 system which contained ncurses-4.2-6 with no difficulty to ncurses-4.2-10. Did you download the new ncurses or did you get it off the cd?