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Re: libncurses.so.2.0

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Mon Nov 11 14:03:51 1996

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Reply-To: teg@stud.imf.unit.no
From: teg@stud.imf.unit.no (Trond Eivind Glomsrød)
Date: 11 Nov 1996 07:56:51 +0100
In-Reply-To: brian eric bothwell's message of Mon, 11 Nov 1996 01:29:47 -0500 (EST)
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brian eric bothwell <brbothwe@indiana.edu> writes:

> My question is if I want to run this or other older packagages that
> require libncurses.so.2.0 can I just install whatever RPMS it is in
> and have BOTH versions without running into conflicts.

Yup. "rpm -i --force ncurses-2.0*". Works fine here. You'd want
to do "rpm -i --force ncurses-3.0-3.i386.rpm" afterwards, to get
back the other files. Or, of course, just get a libncurses from
somewhere else.

>  OR do I need to get source-code for cthugha and recompile it 
> so it works on my RH4.0 system?

That would works also. Get the src-rpm, and do a "rpm --recompile
your_source.src.rpm" 

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