Rich Shepard wrote: > Somehow, libncurses is present in two copies, with different dates and > file sizes. This may be the reason I'm having problems using unixODBC so I > want to clean this up. Did not find the file containing libncurses; it may > well be in one of the base Slackware files, such as aaa_libs. > > Here are the two directories' contents: > > ll /lib/libncurses* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Mar 9 2014 /lib/libncurses.so.5 -> > libncurses.so.5.9* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 313416 May 7 2013 /lib/libncurses.so.5.9* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Mar 9 2014 /lib/libncursesw.so.5 -> > - libncursesw.so.5.9* > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 395048 May 7 2013 /lib/libncursesw.so.5.9* > > Need to remove the 2013 files while leaving the 2014 files in place. > > and > > ll /usr/lib/libncurses* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 414822 May 7 2013 libncurses++.a > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 416350 May 7 2013 libncurses++w.a > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 488966 May 7 2013 libncurses.a > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Mar 9 2014 libncurses.so -> > - /lib/libncurses.so.5* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Nov 7 2010 libncurses.so.5 -> libcurses.so* > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 592644 May 7 2013 libncursesw.a > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 Mar 9 2014 libncursesw.so -> > - /lib/libncursesw.so.5* > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Nov 7 2010 libncursesw.so.5 -> > libcursesw.so* > > Need to remove the 2010 and 2013 copies while leaving the 2014 copies in > place. > > Don't know if the solution is distribution-specific or -agnostic. > > TIA, > > Rich > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > Rich,
Did you check if there is a /lib/libncurses.so.5 ? The copy in this directory points to libncurses.so. Ken _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug