[Novalug] missing libtermcap.so.2

Jon LaBadie novalugml@jgcomp.com
Thu Sep 20 01:46:22 EDT 2012


On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 01:18:00AM -0400, David L Durant wrote:
> Mixing software from different distributions is more art than science.
> Since amanda is one of the Fedora 17 provided Packages, simply use yum
> to install whichever version you require. If you still get dependency
> errors, it should be possible to analyze and resolve the conflicts.
> 

I have a specific need to use the packages from the
Amanda community.


> Mirror.site:/fedora/linux/releases/17/Fedora/x86_64/os/Packages/
>   amanda-3.3.0-5.fc17.x86_64.rpm
> Mirror.site:/fedora/linux/releases/17/Fedora/i386/os/Packages/
>   amanda-3.3.0-5.fc17.i686.rpm
> 
> Compatible software packages must implement the same binary interfaces.
> I doubt that libtermcap, libncurses, and libtinfo have fully compatible
> interfaces. Substituting a different library using a symlink only works
> reliably when the substitute library implements everything amanda needs.
> 
> Dave
> ------------------------------------------
> On 09/19/2012 11:02 PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 07:33:08PM -0400, greg pryzby wrote:
> > 
> >> did you try
> >>    yum install package-name.rpm
> >> or tell us the name of the package
> > 
> > Tried, also tried "rpm -ivh package.rpm".
> > 
> > The software is the amanda client, though
> > not from a Fedora repo.
> > 
> > It does install with rpm with the --nodeps
> > option and I test it that way.  I'd prefer
> > the maintainers fix the dependency.libncurses
> > 
> > Jon
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