[geeks] foldit wants libncurses.so.4 (slackware uses *.so.5)

Frank Van Damme frank.vandamme at student.kuleuven.ac.be
Fri Jan 17 16:55:44 CST 2003


On Friday 17 January 2003 23:35, William S. wrote:
> How can I get around the problem of "foldit"
> wanting libncurses.so.4, when Slackware uses
> *.so.5?
>
> Shouls I create a sym link or install it in a
> different directory?

Won't work. Maybe ncurses4-5.0-5.i386.rpm from rh 7.3? if the 2 don't 
conflict that is. 

or else, you'll have to compile libncurses version 4. Or extract that older 
rpm with cpio and whack it in /usr/local/something, but I think compiling 
would be easier :-)

Frank


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