This software is compiled for use with glibc-2.0.5 You have first to install the library package! Installation hints: If you have another ncurses installation, and the terminfo dir is /usr/lib/terminfo, you should mv or rm the directory /usr/lib/terminfo before or while unpacking the archive. If not, the last entry in the archive will fail. /usr/lib/terminfo -> /usr/share/terminfo linux, vt100 and xterm are fallback resources, so that using the library /lib/libncurses.so.1.9.9g in programs under /bin without /usr should work. Contents of the ncurses-1.9.9g.tar TAR-Archive: -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel 279679 1997-11-04 15:03 lib/libncurses.so.1.9.9g lrwxrwxrwx root/wheel 0 1997-11-04 15:03 lib/libncurses.so.3.4 -> libncurses.so.1.9.9g -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel 28664 1997-11-04 15:46 usr/bin/captoinfo -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel 3292 1997-11-04 15:46 usr/bin/clear -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel 33780 1997-11-04 15:46 usr/bin/infocmp -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel 29724 1997-11-04 15:46 usr/bin/reset -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 1997-11-04 15:46 usr/bin/tic link to usr/bin/captoinfo -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel 25232 1997-11-04 15:46 usr/bin/toe -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel 7352 1997-11-04 15:46 usr/bin/tput -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 1997-11-04 15:46 usr/bin/tset link to usr/bin/reset -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 56324 1997-11-04 15:01 usr/include/ncurses/curses.h -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 1946 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/include/ncurses/eti.h -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 15303 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/include/ncurses/form.h -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 10056 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/include/ncurses/menu.h -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 2642 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/include/ncurses/panel.h -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 33906 1997-11-04 15:01 usr/include/ncurses/term.h -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 2001 1997-11-04 15:01 usr/include/ncurses/termcap.h -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 2050 1997-11-04 15:01 usr/include/ncurses/unctrl.h lrwxrwxrwx root/wheel 0 1997-11-04 15:03 usr/lib/libcurses.a -> /mnt/tmp/ncs/usr/lib/libncurses.a -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 59854 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libform.a lrwxrwxrwx root/wheel 0 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libform.so -> libform.so.3.4 -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel 48795 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libform.so.1.9.9g lrwxrwxrwx root/wheel 0 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libform.so.3.4 -> libform.so.1.9.9g -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 258058 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libform_g.a -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 38950 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libmenu.a lrwxrwxrwx root/wheel 0 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libmenu.so -> libmenu.so.3.4 -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel 25783 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libmenu.so.1.9.9g lrwxrwxrwx root/wheel 0 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libmenu.so.3.4 -> libmenu.so.1.9.9g -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 202548 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libmenu_g.a -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 367138 1997-11-04 15:03 usr/lib/libncurses.a lrwxrwxrwx root/wheel 0 1997-11-04 15:29 usr/lib/libncurses.so -> ../../lib/libncurses.so.3.4 -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 1394954 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libncurses_g.a -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 4662 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libpanel.a lrwxrwxrwx root/wheel 0 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libpanel.so -> libpanel.so.3.4 -rwxr-xr-x root/wheel 8310 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libpanel.so.1.9.9g lrwxrwxrwx root/wheel 0 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libpanel.so.3.4 -> libpanel.so.1.9.9g -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 18734 1997-11-04 15:04 usr/lib/libpanel_g.a -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 4330 1997-11-04 15:01 usr/man/man1/captoinfo.1m -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 469 1997-11-04 15:01 usr/man/man1/clear.1 -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 12850 1997-11-04 15:02 usr/man/man1/infocmp.1m -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 8370 1997-11-04 15:03 usr/man/man1/tic.1m -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 1926 1997-11-04 15:03 usr/man/man1/toe.1m -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 8174 1997-11-04 15:03 usr/man/man1/tput.1 -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 9423 1997-11-04 15:03 usr/man/man1/tset.1 -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 6180 1997-11-04 15:01 usr/man/man3/curs_addch.3x -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 2168 1997-11-04 15:01 usr/man/man3/curs_addchstr.3x -rw-r--r-- r n/man5/term.5 -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 84148 1997-11-04 15:01 usr/man/man5/terminfo.5 -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 7398 1997-11-04 15:03 usr/man/man7/term.7 drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 1997-11-04 15:08 usr/share/tabset/ -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 135 1997-11-04 15:08 usr/share/tabset/std -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 95 1997-11-04 15:08 usr/share/tabset/stdcrt -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 160 1997-11-04 15:08 usr/share/tabset/vt100 -rw-r--r-- root/wheel 64 1997-11-04 15:08 usr/share/tabset/vt300 drwxr-xr-x root/wheel 0 1997-11-04 15:08 usr/share/terminfo/ [...] lrwxrwxrwx root/wheel 0 1997-11-04 15:08 usr/lib/terminfo -> ../share/terminfo