From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.14-5.0 i586) Description of problem: Application (Linux General Ledger) is compiled with RH6.2 and libncurses.4. When attempting to run under 7.1 you must first copy libncurses.5.so to libncurses.4.so, if libncurses.4.so is not already installed. This problem has not been noted with other distributions. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Compile a C/C++ program including curses code under 6.2 using -lncurses. 2.Try to run binary under 7.1. 3. You may also download the Linux General Ledger demo version from www.linuxledgers.com (free) and try to run it rather than write your own curses code. Additional info:
Install the ncurses4 compat package. Symlinking/copying libncurses.so.5 to libncurses.so.4 will work in many cases, but segfault in some others: There are binary incompatibilities in some very rarely used functions.