No module named _curses (RedHat 7)

[Duane Voth]

In January someone had this problem on Windows, but I saw it
on a RedHat 7.1 system today.

	[]$ python life.py 
	Traceback (most recent call last):
	  File "life.py", line 21, in ?
	    import curses
	  File "/usr/local/lib/python2.2/curses/__init__.py", line 15, in ?
	    from _curses import *
	ImportError: No module named _curses
	[]$

Turns out my installtion did not have a symlink for libncurses:

	# cd /usr/lib
	# ls -l libncurses*
	lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           17 Apr 27 08:33 libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.2
	-rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       257524 Mar  6  2001 libncurses.so.5.2
	# ln -s libncurses.so.5.2 libncurses.so

Then, go back to your Python sourse directory and do make and make install.

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Duane Voth
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