Hello Mike:

I'm running IRAF on Fedora 11, and before I used Fedora 9 and 10. I always have had the problems reported in these posts:

http://iraf.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=86998
http://iraf.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=88809

about libtermcap.so.2 while trying to ran ecl. One of your solutions is to install the ncurses package, but the problem is that ncurses does not contain libtermcap.so.2.

What I made to workaround this issue was to install the package libtermcap2, which is not in the Fedora repositories, but can be found here:

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idpl/1034752/com/libtermcap2-2.0.8-36sls.i586.rpm.html

and this package contains the file libtermcap.so.2, and everything works fine this way.

My question is: why do you suggest to install ncurses if there is no libtermcap there? Maybe ncurses-devel?

Thank you very much for your help.
German Racca.

This is all due to the fact that the ECL was supposed to have been built statically and so not required a shared lib for the termcap stuff. The release got out with a dynamic binary and newer versions of linux either use a different shared library, or don't normally install the needed ncurses/termcap stuff by default. The recommendation to install ncurses was based on the fact that libtermcap was in there when the recommendation was first made, thanks for posting an update.

In short, installing the statically linked binary at http://iraf.net/ftp/pub/fitz/ecl.e is now recommended to avoid the shared termcap lib.

-Mike