diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 45bcdb113..bfdfcca63 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -40,6 +40,11 @@
     <listitem>
       <para>2009-05-23</para>
       <itemizedlist>
+        <listitem>
+          <para>[bdubbs] - Removed redundencies in ncurses.  Thanks to Chris
+          Staub. Fixes
+          <ulink url="&lfs-ticket-root;2403">#2403</ulink>.</para>
+        </listitem>
         <listitem>
           <para>[bdubbs] - Various minor text changes.  Thanks to Chris
           Staub. Fixes
diff --git a/chapter06/ncurses.xml b/chapter06/ncurses.xml
index f86ec8145..86c6ce974 100644
--- a/chapter06/ncurses.xml
+++ b/chapter06/ncurses.xml
@@ -99,11 +99,6 @@
 
 <screen><userinput remap="install">make install</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para>Correct the permissions of a library that should not be executable:
-    </para>
-
-<screen><userinput remap="install">chmod -v 644 /usr/lib/libncurses++w.a</userinput></screen>
-
     <para>Move the libraries to the <filename class="directory">/lib</filename> directory,
     where they are expected to reside:</para>
 
@@ -118,7 +113,7 @@
     non-wide-character Ncurses libraries. Trick such applications into linking with
     wide-character libraries by means of symlinks and linker scripts:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="install">for lib in curses ncurses form panel menu ; do \
+<screen><userinput remap="install">for lib in ncurses form panel menu ; do \
     rm -vf /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \
     echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" &gt;/usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \
     ln -sfv lib${lib}w.a /usr/lib/lib${lib}.a ; \