From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 13 16:04:51 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4013B1065673 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:04:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 189A28FC26 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:04:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.101]) by mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A646BAFC1C7; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 07:04:49 -0900 (AKST) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:37:35 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811131637.36241.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Tsu-Fan Cheng Subject: Re: port upgrade problem: libncurses.so.5.6 not found X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:04:51 -0000 On Thursday 13 November 2008 15:41:13 Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: > Hi, > just cvsup my port tree and upgrade a few of them by portmaster, > but somehow there is this error that blocks a lot of upgrades: > shared object "libncurses.so.5.6" not found, required by > "xgettext/msgmerge/msgfmt"... FreeBSD only uses 1 library version number (it would be libncurses.so.5 OR libncurses.so.6), so can you provide the output of: ldd `which xgettext` -- Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.