first, thanks for your help, still haven't gotten it to work - though.
compile the _app_ that wants
don't have source code - Netscape's fasttrack ( cheapy) web server - doubt if they would make this as source available. I linked the libncurses.4.1 symbolically to all levels in question lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 1 00:59 libncp.so.1 -> libncp.so.1.0 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 116335 Mar 4 13:29 libncp.so.1.0 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 18 13:24 libncurses.so -> libncurses.so.4.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 18 13:25 libncurses.so.3 -> libncurses.so.4.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 18 13:25 libncurses.so.3.0 -> libncurses.so.4.1 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 733848 Mar 11 04:24 libncurses.so.3.0.980228 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 18 13:26 libncurses.so.3.2 -> libncurses.so.4.1 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 18 13:26 libncurses.so.4 -> libncurses.so.4.1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 273787 Aug 18 01:25 libncurses.so.4.1 but giving it a different name won't change versions and fool the installer (rpm? or whatever gives that message) - appearently: rpm -i fast* failed dependencies: libncurses.so.3.2 is needed by fasttrack-export-2.0.1-14 I have not seen such links either - yet, crosslinks of library versions across first revision level - I think that may create problems. New versions may have new symbols or symbols missing and old programs may not satisfy the symbols and fail to link. I have seen the *so.1 -> *so.1.3, *.so.2 -> *.so.2.6 *.so.3 -> *.so.3.5 etc. i.e. the main levels without suffix linked agains the latest sub level with previous versions sitting there without having symbolic links to it. This scheme allows one to move back and forth between library and release version. But what I see is that you have a 4.2 version of ncurses - where did you get it? Maybe there is a 3.2 version? I got an old URL for curses 1.9 - but that's it, I don't know where they are hiding the sources nowadays... Anyway, Samartha - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e