[CentOS] Broken ncurses symlinks

Thu Nov 16 00:07:25 UTC 2006
Moyena Bingi <lionrules1 at hotmail.com>


Moyena Bingi wrote:

Top posting and breaking quoting is even worse for your karma.

 > I have two versions on my pc ncurses 5.4.13 which is from
 > centos.karan.org.

5.4.13 is the ncurses version which comes with CentOS. And which
normally isn't broken.

 > I complied version 5.5 from the source, hoping that
 > might fix the problem.  I downloaded it from ncurses website.

How should breaking the package management on your box by introducing
self compiled software which *replaces* packages from the base system
help fix things?

If you're lucky the ncurses sources have an uninstall target so you can
say "make uninstall" in the source tree.

Then get the ncurses rpms from <http://mirror.centos.org/> and install
them with rpm -ivh --replacepkgs ncurses*.rpm.

Ralph



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I just did a fresh install of Centos, and the links are still broken i tried 
doing :
rpm -ivh --replacepkgs ncurses*.rpm
[root at localhost downloads]# rpm -ivh --replacepkgs ncurses*.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### 
[100%]
   1:ncurses                ########################################### [ 
50%]
   2:ncurses-devel          ########################################### 
[100%]
[root at localhost downloads]#

But the packages are still broken.

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