[fpc-pascal]need help with the ide

[Marco van de Voort]

>   i'm using red hat linux 8. i downloaded the rpm file and then 
> downloaded the
> ide seperately. after i installed the compiler and it worked fine. but got
> some problem with the ide. when i typed fp the computer gives out the 
> messege
> "fp : error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.4: cannot open 
> shared
> object file: No such file or directory. "
> why am i getting this messege. and how can i resolve it.
> please mind that i'm new to linux.
>      thanks

The Unix library "ncurses.so.4". Use your distributions package tools (rpm
for redhat I believe) to add package ncurses. If there are multiple versions, add
version 4.