[Novalug] missing libtermcap.so.2

greg pryzby greg@pryzby.org
Thu Sep 20 08:27:21 EDT 2012


https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/amanda?_csrf_token=793db83a056f533226064c2ba2a632a4c44d98b0
http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/17723106/dir/fedora_17/com/amanda-client-3.3.0-2.fc16.i686.rpm.html

I am not sure where you are getting it from. I agree the maintainer
should fix. It looks like it is or will be available for Fedora (top
link). The 2nd link is the RPM and there isn't a termcap requirement
that I see

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:02 PM, Jon LaBadie <novalugml@jgcomp.com> 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.
>
> Jon
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 7:15 PM, Jon LaBadie <novalugml@jgcomp.com> wrote:
>> > I'm trying to install an rpm on Fedora 17.  It is
>> > throwing an error about a missing dependency for
>> > "libtermcap.so.2".  This library doesn't seem to be
>> > available for Fedora 17 (and maybe a few earlier
>> > releases).  I think its functions are incorporated
>> > into the libncurses group (or possibly libtinfo).
>> >
>> > In the past, when there was a reasonable alternative
>> > library, I was able to make a symlink to the alternative.
>> > It is not working for this package.
>> >
>> > I've also tried copying the existing libtinfo and
>> > libncurses libraries under the libtermcap.so.2
>> > name.  And grasping for straws, I used a binary
>> > editor on the renamed copy of libncurses, to replace
>> > all instances of the string "libncurses.so.5.9" with
>> > "libtermcap.so.2".  Lastly, I made a copy of the
>> > package I'm trying to install and using the binary
>> > editor, nulled out the strings "libtermcap.so.2".
>> >
>> > I have contacted the package maintainer.
>> >
>> > Any other ideas?
>> >
>> > jon
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