I just did a fresh install of Centos, and the links are still broken i tried
I would venture to guess that your method of determining the symlink's status is incorrect. That or you're using a rebuild of centos that is horribly broken in some fashion.
I have done 2 installs today, and I can assure you that ncurses and ncurses-devel work quite well.
But the packages are still broken.
I doubt this very much.
From the console, run 'rpm -V ncurses'
if the above command returns with no output, then the rpm is installed properly and all symlinks are intact.
Below is some output from my system to show you what I mean:
[jperrin@insanity lib]$ rpm -V ncurses [jperrin@insanity lib]$ [jperrin@insanity lib]$ ll libncurses* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 409138 Feb 21 2005 libncurses.a -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 109760 Feb 21 2005 libncurses++.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 513792 Feb 21 2005 libncurses_g.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 15 Nov 3 2005 libncurses.so -> libncurses.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Nov 3 2005 libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 879963 Feb 21 2005 libncurses.so.5.4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 109760 Feb 21 2005 libncurses++w.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 467576 Feb 21 2005 libncursesw.a -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 580634 Feb 21 2005 libncursesw_g.a lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 Nov 3 2005 libncursesw.so -> libncursesw.so.5 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Nov 3 2005 libncursesw.so.5 -> libncursesw.so.5.4 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1027957 Feb 21 2005 libncursesw.so.5.4 [jperrin@insanity lib]$ sudo rm -i libncurses.so rm: remove symbolic link `libncurses.so'? y [jperrin@insanity lib]$ rpm -V ncurses missing /usr/lib/libncurses.so [jperrin@insanity lib]$
Based on your previous statement it would seem that your ncurses packages are fine.
<SNIP previous comment since threading this message is pointless> Thanks for your response attached are the requested output. There was no output from "rpm -V ncurses" and "rpm -V ncurses-devel" </SNIP>
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My method for seeing if the links are broken is during a search for ncurses. When I sort by type it shows about 7 files with the description link (broken).
Regards, mn
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