[Nottingham] RPM dependency confusion

Tim Emanuel nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Thu Jul 10 17:02:00 2003


On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Graeme Fowler wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Jul 2003, Tim Emanuel wrote:
> > [root@localhost tim]# rpm -i bsd-games-2.13-1.i386.rpm
> > error: failed dependencies:
> >         libtinfo.so.5   is needed by bsd-games-2.13-1
> 
> # locate libtinfo
> <list of files may display a result like>
> /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.6
> /usr/lib/libtinfo.so.6.0.0
> /usr/lib/libtinfo.so

Or not! slocate libtinfo produces nothing.

cheers,

Tim.