From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 24 21:10:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu (jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B3314F5A for ; Sun, 24 Oct 1999 21:10:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@miami.edu) Received: from jaguar.ir.miami.edu ("port 4016"@jaguar.ir.miami.edu [129.171.32.10]) by jaguar.ir.miami.edu (PMDF V5.2-32 #40232) with ESMTP id <0FK5008NP4XCQR@jaguar.ir.miami.edu> for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Mon, 25 Oct 1999 00:10:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 1999 00:10:24 -0400 (EDT) From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" Subject: Re: Error when running "talk" In-reply-to: To: Stephen Bader Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sounds like somethings didn't get install correctly. The library talk is asking for normally resides in /usr/lib, and comes as part of the standard base install (i.e. bin). Mine runs fine under 3.3-release. Make sure the library, libcurses.so.2 exists in /usr/lib, then run: env OBJFORMAT=elf ldconfig -m /usr/lib Then see if talk will run. Joe Clarke On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Stephen Bader wrote: > > I am currently running FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE and whenever I try to run the > talk command, I get the following error: > > bash-2.03$ talk > /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libcurses.so.2" not found > > > Does anyone know what might be causing this error? I assume something is > either missing or corrupt, but I am not sure what. Any suggestions would > be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > -Steve > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message