Re: Req. for Advice -- Library Compatibility

[Thomas Dickey]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 10:17:39AM -0700, Dennis Newbold wrote:

>   3. Download ncurses-4.2-18.i386.rpm from Redhat's ftp site and
>      install it.  But I'm not sure if its possible to have two different
>      versions of libncurses.so.xx on the system at the same time,
>      nor how this would affect other programs which currently run
>      with the libncurses.so.5.2

It works (but you need only the shared library - not the rest of the rpm).
The only rpm's I see for 4.2 are full runtime things (though I recall reading
that there was a 4.2 compatibility rpm distributed with Redhat 7.0).

If there's other files, I'd use unrpm to extract just the part I wanted.

In any case, you'll have to see which "4.2"/"4.0" is needed - Redhat was
rather careless about that.

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