where to find a recent libtermcap.so?

[h.engemann at basicartstudios.de]

Martin Pitt wrote:

>Hi!
>
>Heiko Engemann [2004-10-12 16:05 +0200]:
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>
>>Hi,
>>i try to run a tool that i need.
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>And you cannot recompile it?
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>>When i start the process it gives me this error:
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>>error while loading shared libraries: libtermcap.so.2: cannot open
>>shared object file: No such file or directory
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>
>libtermcap is actually sort of obsolete. On a current Ubuntu system
>it is linked to the ncurses library.
>
>If you are really stuck with the binary and cannot rebuild from
>source, you could try to hack around this by
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>  sudo ln -s libtermcap.so /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2
>
>This will create a symlink to the current library. However, no
>guarantees, it might fail miserably.
>
>Good luck!
>
>Martin
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>
after some unsuccesfull tries i got it compiled, seems to work now.
thx