[Nottingham] RPM dependency confusion

Tim Emanuel nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Thu Jul 10 16:24:00 2003


[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

Fair enough. So, I go to http://www.rpmfind.net, and a search
for libtinfo.so.5 suggests I need to install ncurses-5.2-34.i386.rpm.

However, I then do:

[root@localhost tim]# rpm -qa | grep -i curses
libncurses5-5.3-1.20030215.1mdk
libncurses5-devel-5.3-1.20030215.1mdk
ncurses-5.3-1.20030215.1mdk

which suggests that I have a lter version of ncurses installed. How do I 
sort that out then?

cheers,

Tim.