dependency problem installing MC in Redhat 9.0

[Pavel Tsekov]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, Alejandro Lengua - Virtual Orbis wrote:

> Hi!
> I am having a hard time trying to install midnight commander
> (mc-4.6.0-2.i386.rpm), actually my only dependency left is
> libslang.so.1 ....
>
> Making some googling I found that the slang-1.2.2-1.i386.rpm
> is the one I should need to install. However a more recent version
> "package slang-1.4.5-16" is already installed.
>
> So I decided to install forcing --nodeps
> however it didn´t work fine and now I get this error everytime I run "mc"

What does rpm say when you try to install mc-4.6.0-2.i386.rpm _without_
the --nodeps option ? Where did you get mc-4.6.0-2.i386.rpm from ?

> mc: error while loading shared libraries: libslang.so.1: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory

Have you tried what Frank Dietrich suggested here:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/mc/2004-October/msg00012.html