[csw-users] Installation of ncurses partially failed

[Gérard Henry]

James Lee wrote:
> On 02/07/07, 09:01:42, "Gérard Henry" <ghenry at cmi.univ-mrs.fr> wrote 
> regarding [csw-users] Installation of ncurses partially failed:
> 
>> when i try toi install CSWncurses, i got:
>> ultra20-root% pkgadd -v -d .
> 
>> ...
> 
> 
>> ERROR: /opt/csw/lib/terminfo
>>      file type <s> expected <d> actual
>> /opt/csw/lib/terminfo
> 
> 
> Indeed CSWncurses expects it to be a symbolic link as it says.  What
> is is on your machine?
> 
> $ ls -ld /opt/csw/lib/terminfo
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root     other         17 Aug  9  2006 /opt/csw/lib/terminfo 
> -> ../share/terminfo
> 
> 
> What else might have cause this to be a directory?
> 
> $ pkgchk -l -p /opt/csw/lib/terminfo
> Pathname: /opt/csw/lib/terminfo
> Type: symbolic link
> Source of link: ../share/terminfo
> Referenced by the following packages:
> 	CSWncurses     
> Current status: installed
> 
> 
> 
> I suspect CSWmlterm.
> 

no, i don't have mlterm installed in this machine.
after replacing directory by the correct link, i de-install the package, 
and reinstall it, and it works now!? i don't understand what happened...

thanks for your reply

gerard