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From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: lngndvs@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone
Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 07:13:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090707071306.587c61a9@osage.osagesoftware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890907062054l67145293x43246f1648e48992@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:54:52 +1000
Alan E. Davis wrote:

> thank you.  And your comment was duly noted about trying random
> things.
> 
> When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other
> line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting
> 
> /sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5:
> cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
> 
> Alan

Might you just be missing a symlink?  I have the following on my system:

lrwxrwxrwx ... /lib/libncurses.so -> libncurses.so.5  
lrwxrwxrwx ... /lib/libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.6   
-rwxr-xr-x ... /lib/libncurses.so.5.6

HTH,

David



      parent reply	other threads:[~2009-07-07 11:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-06 20:21 [gentoo-user] ncurses is gone Alan E. Davis
2009-07-06 20:37 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-06 22:43 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-07-07  3:54   ` Alan E. Davis
2009-07-07  6:37     ` Sebastian Beßler
2009-07-07  7:08       ` Alan E. Davis
2009-07-07 10:15         ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-07 10:24           ` Alan E. Davis
2009-07-07 11:02             ` John covici
2009-07-07 11:10             ` Alan E. Davis
2009-07-07 12:07               ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-07 13:06                 ` Alan E. Davis
2009-07-07 11:13     ` David Relson [this message]

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