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Re: Lynx broken on 9.3 Linux
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Apr 14 12:02:32 2004
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Robert A Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>
Cc: Alex T Prengel <alexp@mit.edu>, testers@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1081952018.1678.88.camel@anhedonia.mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 12:02:26 -0400
On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 10:13, Robert A Basch wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-13 at 16:11, Alex T Prengel wrote:
> > astrophel.mit.edu:~ athena% add infoagents
> > astrophel.mit.edu:~ athena% lynx
> > /mit/infoagents/arch/i386_rh9/MIT-only/lynx-2.7.1: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> libncurses.so.4 is in the old ncurses4 6.2 compatibility package,
> which we apparently do not have in 9.3. Probably the right thing
> to do is rebuild/upgrade lynx, which would then use libncurses.so.5.
> I will look into doing this when I get a chance.
RHEL 3 dropped the ncurses4 package, but we do have the option of
installing the RPM from Redhat 9. However, if lynx is close to the only
curses binary old enough to be affected, and you can recompile it,
perhaps we can hold off on doing that.
