rockets Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Each time I call up a man page I get the following error message: less.bin: Symbol `ospeed' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking How do I relink? what do I relink to?? I'm using Mandrake 10.0 and do not know when this problem started. Any help is really appreciated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted December 1, 2004 Report Share Posted December 1, 2004 Sounds like an ncurses problem. Try updating or reinstalling ncurses. If you have web sources defined for urpmi, you can do this easily. urpmi ncurses If that returns "Everything already installed', do this: wget $(urpmq --sources ncurses) Then do rpm -ivh --replacefiles --replacepkgs ncurses<<hit the tab button>> Hopefully, that'll solve the problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockets Posted December 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 I tried urpmi : # urpmi ncurses ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandrake/o...9.2mdk.i586.rpm installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ncurses-5.4-1.20040529.2mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ################################################## 1:ncurses ################################################## Then tried wget: ]$ wget $(urpmq --sources ncurses) removable://mnt/cdrom/Mandrake/RPMS/ncurses-5.3-1.20040125.4mdk.i586.rpm: Unsupported scheme. Should I continue and try to rpm replace?? I have read the rpm docs since redhat brought them out but they intimidate me. I have been using Mandrake console (mcc). Thats easier for an old wore out non programmer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted December 3, 2004 Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 If this succeeded: # urpmi ncurses ftp://ftp.ens-cachan.fr/mirror/Mandrake/o...9.2mdk.i586.rpm installing /var/cache/urpmi/rpms/ncurses-5.4-1.20040529.2mdk.i586.rpm Preparing... ################################################## 1:ncurses ################################################## you shouldn't have to try my wget method. Try also to reinstall libncurses and libncurses-devel. My wget method only works if you have only web sources defined in urpmi. If you need that way, you can go here: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ to set up only web sources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockets Posted December 3, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 3, 2004 (edited) Well, I went to mcc and searched for libncurses. Found and installed libncurses and libncurses-devel. No change. I still get the error message. What does relink mean? Relink what to what? Off topic: I used mcc last night to install new kernel (2.6.8.1-12mdk). Worked great even updated grub with new option. Question: where is the new kernel /usr/src/2.6.8.1-12mdk? I have /usr/src/linux and /usr/src/2.3-19mdk but no dir for the new kernel. uname -a gives 2.6.8.1-12mdk. ***********Found it!!! Its where it should be: /lib/modules/2.6.8.1-12mdk Still don't understand use of /src. Edited December 3, 2004 by rockets Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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