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From: jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: can't run packages due to id.so...
Date: 26 May 1995 19:55:20 GMT
Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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In article <Pine.ULT.3.91.950526094233.20168A-100000@silver.ucs.indiana.edu>,
jack david ross  <jdross@indiana.edu> wrote:
>We have just installed the newest ver. of freebsd from ftp.cdrom.com and 
>when we get some of the packages that are already precompiled like lynx, 
>gopher or pine, and get errors. 
>the error for trying to run lynx is
>  id.so :lynx: libncurses.so.3.0: no such file or directory
>

You're trying to load packages generated for FreeBSD-current (and the
upcoming 2.0.5) on a 2.0 system.  You won't be able to do this.

						Jordan