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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!silver.ucs.indiana.edu!jdross From: jack david ross <jdross@indiana.edu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: can't run packages due to id.so... Date: Wed, 31 May 1995 10:01:51 -0500 Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington Lines: 32 Message-ID: <Pine.ULT.3.91.950531095606.24369B-100000@silver.ucs.indiana.edu> References: <m0sGc65-000E1MC@hammy.lonestar.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: silver.ucs.indiana.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: jdross@silver.ucs.indiana.edu In-Reply-To: <m0sGc65-000E1MC@hammy.lonestar.org> We have tried everything below, including linking libncurses.so.2.0 to a fake name called libncurses.so.3.0, There is no libncurses.so.3.0 on our system only libncurses.so.2.0, we still get the same types of errors when we try and run anything like pine, elm, zsh (being, asking for higher version numbers than what we already have. By the way we have the official 2.0 FreeBSD release, we tried from the cd-rom and the ftp.cdrom.com site! On Tue, 30 May 1995, Gordon Burditt wrote: > >We have just installed the newest ver. of freebsd from ftp.cdrom.com and > >when we get some of the packages that are already precompiled like lynx, > >gopher or pine, and get errors. > >the error for trying to run lynx is > > id.so :lynx: libncurses.so.3.0: no such file or directory > > That should be 'ld.so'. > > >I checked and found these files in the /usr/lib, and we get all the stiff > > You found /usr/lib/libncurses.so.3.0, that filename exactly, the > same as in the error message? > > If this is true, then I suggest that you haven't run ldconfig to > get it into the table of shared libraries. This should be run from > /etc/rc when you reboot. > > Gordon L. Burditt > sneaky.lonestar.org!gordon >