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From: David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: lngndvs@×××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:13:08
Message-Id: 20090707071306.587c61a9@osage.osagesoftware.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: ncurses is gone by "Alan E. Davis"
1 On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 13:54:52 +1000
2 Alan E. Davis wrote:
3
4 > thank you. And your comment was duly noted about trying random
5 > things.
6 >
7 > When I boot the system, the following message follows (after one other
8 > line) after INIT: version 2.86 booting
9 >
10 > /sbin/rc: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5:
11 > cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory.
12 >
13 > Alan
14
15 Might you just be missing a symlink? I have the following on my system:
16
17 lrwxrwxrwx ... /lib/libncurses.so -> libncurses.so.5
18 lrwxrwxrwx ... /lib/libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.6
19 -rwxr-xr-x ... /lib/libncurses.so.5.6
20
21 HTH,
22
23 David