Problem in cl

yuanjinghua880 wrote on Jul 06, 2009

Hi all,
I met a problem while I install iraf on my pc. The fallow massage is there when I type $cl in terminal .
/iraf/iraf/bin.redhat/ecl.e: error while loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried $yum install ncurses ,then it said:
ncurses-5.6-20.20080927.fc10.i386 is already installed.
nothing to do
Then I get a statically linked binary from http://iraf.net/ftp/pub/fitz/ecl.e and cope it to /iraf/irafbin/bin.redhat. I tried $cl again , it failed too.
Now I really need your help.
Thank you.
Jing-hua YUAN

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Mike Fitzpatrick wrote on Jul 06, 2009

If you have ncurses already installed the binary may have failed because of a version difference, e.g. you have v5 but the binary was linked against v4. In most cases you can create a symlink to the existing binary to satisfy the reference. For instance, run the command

% ldd /path/ecl.e

This will print the required shared libraries and the libtermcap.so.2 will probably say 'not found'. This should exist in the /lib directory and if there is a newer version there then (as root) you can make the link with e.g.

# ln -s /lib/libtermcap.so.4 /lib/libtermcap.so.2

The static binary *should* work anyway, but could fail if the execute permissions weren't set after download (i.e. what is the error message?) or if it was placed in the wrong directory.

-Mike

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yuanjinghua880 wrote on Jul 06, 2009

Hi Mike,
My problem has been resolved successfully . Thank you.

Jing-hua

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