Re: lbncurses.so.4 issue

[Ed Greshko <Ed Greshko greshko com>]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 14:12, Richard S. Crawford wrote:

> "Error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.4: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory"
> 
> ...which doesn't surprise me, since the software was tested against no
> later version of RH than 6.2.
> 
> My question is, is there a way to get it to talk to RH8?  I tried
> opening the "upsd" script, but it's a binary file and I can't look at
> the source code.  And while Belkin says it's compatible with Linux,
> there is no documentation on their website, and the documentation on the
> CD is lousy.

Install ncurses4-5.0-9.  This is on the RH8 CD and provides backward
compatibility.

Ed