Help! Problem Installing the Academic MicroStation 95 for Linux

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Hi,

Earlier this year I purchased the Bentley Academic MicroStation 95 Mechanical
Engineering CAD software package to use with RedHat Linux 5.0 kernel 2.0.33
for the Intel platform. I had MicroStation 95 installed and running on the
RedHat Linux 5.0 with kernel 2.0.33. However, over the summer I had some
hardware failures and I had to upgrade to RedHat Linux 5.1 with kernel 2.0.35
to support the replacement hardware that I now have. I had to reinstall most
of my application software in Linux and I am having a problem reinstalling
MicroStation 95 for Linux in RedHat Linux 5.1. At first when I attempted to
run the ./setup program from the /mnt/cdrom/asuite95/ms95/linux directory of
the MicroStation 95 cdrom, it said:

  ./setup: Can't load library 'libncurses.so.2.0'

and it aborted back to the Linux Superuser prompt. So I remembered what I did
the last time I had this problem, which was to find the current version of
libncurses.so.x.x and symbol linked a new filename, called libncurses.so.2.0
to it and that solved the problem. However, when I did this with RedHat 5.1
with kernel 2.0.35, I now get a error message, which says:

   Segmentation fault

when I tried to run ./setup from the /mnt/cdrom/asuite95/ms95/linux directory.

However, last week I solved the Segmentation fault problem by upgrading the
ncurses shared library to the current libncurses.so.1.9.9e from the RedHat
Manhattan ftp web site. However, now I am getting an 'Error opening terminal:
linux' when I try to run ./setup from the text mode of Linux or 'Error
opening terminal: xterm' when trying to run the ./setup from XFree86.

I was wondering if anyone had a problem like this with an application program
for Linux that requires 'libncurses.so.2.0' to run with RedHat Linux 5.1 with
kernel 2.0.35? How did you remedy it to make it work? Do you have any ideas
or suggestions that I can try?

Thank you,

David Smith

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