Miscellany
Getting HSI/HTAR running on Fedora 9
HSI/HTAR are programs I use
to retrieve data from storage on the NERSC
computing systems. Both programs
are available for download from the NERSC webpages for persons with a valid
NIM id and password. Installation is rather straightforward, just be logged
in as root and do a
make install
to install in the default (/usr/local/bin/)
directory. The problem arises when you run either HSI or HTAR as it is looking
for a shared
library file, libtermcap.so.2,
which I did not happen to have installed in my standard Fedora 9 installation.
It seems that the functionality of
libtermcap.so.2 has been superceded
by the ncurses package and
specifically the libncurses.so
sequence of files. To overcome the problem
simply make a soft link to the ncurses
file. On my machine it was (as root):
cd /lib
ln -s libncurses.so.5.6 libtermcap.so.2
Everything seems to be working fine now.