Hello James,

Up until an hour ago i had the same problem. I fixed it by creating a link:
ln /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.2 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.4

I am farely new to Linux too but it worked! I'll find out what i actually 
did, and what the concequences are, later.

Hope to have helped you,

Paul

> Hello everyone!  I am brand new to Linux, and I ran the rpm for 
interbase, 
> however, when I try to run the ibmgr -start, or any other interbase 
> command for that matter, i get 'Cannot load libncurses.so.4', and that 
it 
> doesn't exist.  I can't find this file anywhere on my machine.  Could 
> somebody give me some advice.  I'm really excited about interbase, and I 
> like it on Windows, but I really want to learn how to use it on Linux, 
so 
> any help is greatly appreciated!
> 
> James