[vox-tech] newbie now having trouble with pico

[Jeff Newmiller]

On Sat, 25 Jan 2003, Katie wrote:

> problem #2 of ??????? :-)
> 
> So now I'm trying to install pico.  I downloaded it and tried
> installation through KPackage, but was told I needed:
> 
> libtinfo.so.5
> 
> I looked it up on rpmfind and it said it was contained in 
> 
> ncurses-5.2-34.i686(ori386).rpm
> 
> which I downloaded, but when I tried to install it I got:
> 
> <ome/katie/.kpackage/ncurses-5.2-34.i686.rpm;echo RESULT=$?
> error: failed dependencies:
> 	libncurses5 = 5.2 is needed by libncurses5-devel-5.2-27mdk
> 	libncurses5 >= 5.2 is needed by php-readline-4.2.3-1mdk
> 	libncurses5 is needed by scli-0.2.9-2mdk
> 	libpanel.so.5   is needed by python-2.2.1-13mdk
> RESULT=1
> 
> This doesn't make sense to me.  What do I do?

I am no rpm expert, but these errors suggest to me that rpm was trying to
remove ncurses and complaining about it.  Total guesswork: It may be
attempting to remove it due to the way you are invoking it... did you tell
it to update ncurses, or did you tell it to install ncurses? the latter
may try to remove equivalent packages before installing the one you
specify.

If the ncurses package really is already installed, then it may be a
faulty install.  You may have "libtinfo.so.5.1" or something, and need a
symlink from the generic library name to the specific one (something like
"ln -s /lib/libtinfo.so.5.1 /lib/libtinfo.so.5".

After googling around a bit though, I am more inclined to think you should
look for a different rpm for pico, because that library seems to be pretty
unusual.  I am running Debian, and have pico installed, and my version
does NOT need that library... whatever functionality it provides is part
of libncurses.so.5.

Note that "pico" actually comes with "pine" (normally), so you can
probably find an rpm for "pine" and get what you are after.

Also, as was pointed out elsewhere, nano is a clone of pico, that may do
the trick.

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