nsurses installation? help!

[tar ciryatan]

hi...I'm trying to do the
rpm -Uvh ncurses-5.2-12mdk-i586.rpm
command, but instead of installing the ncurses rpm, it gives me an error message saying "lib.ncurses.so5 is needed by (add about a list of 20 files here)"
how do I install this .rpm?

[MBMarduk]

Doesn't Drake have a utility to do this?

My only rpm-based distro -SuSE- had one called YaST. I've never used the CLI rpm command so all I can suggest is to use a "force"-suffix ("man rpm" should tell you which suffix exactly, prolly "-f")

WARNING: LIBRARIES ARE A ROYAL PAIN IN THE @SS, SO WATCH OUT!!! THIS CAN POTENTIALLY DISABLE YOUR SYSTEM?!?!?!?!

If your box is telling you your programs need ncurses5 I think that means you already HAVE ncurses5 installed.

(off topic: this reminds me of a similar Debian kernelconfig problem I had that only went away when I deleted Debian :D)

If you still wanna go through, I'd suggest doing this from a (bootable CD) "live"-system: that way while you're installing, the ncurses you use is on the CD and not on the HDD.

Doesn't Drake come with a book?
Or maybe a special "Package to install when recompiling a kernel"?
Did you check linuxdoc.org?

Good Luck
-Mike

[7]

Mate mate mate mate mate maaaaate!

Your installing the wrong .rpm. This is for the kernel compile, right? Then your wanting to install the dev version (your installing the binary version, the kernel wants the sources to those binarys. You probably already have the ncurses binarys installed ).

[tar ciryatan]

I also have the ncurses sources. should Itry installing those? And, should I use that same command?

[7]

Yeah, you should try to install the sources ( in another .rpm? Not in tarball? ) as long as there are in a rpm.

Yep, the same command.