Hi im running Fedora core 2 and when i run yum update i get the following results, this is a snippet of the end of the update:

Test transaction complete, Success!
libtiff 100 % done 1/6
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libslang.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
/sbin/ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libnewt.so is truncated
/sbin/ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.51 is truncated
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libslang-utf8.so.1 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
/sbin/ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.51.6 is truncated
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libslang-utf8.so.1.4.9 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libslang-utf8.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
cups-libs 100 % done 2/6
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libslang.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
/sbin/ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libnewt.so is truncated
/sbin/ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.51 is truncated
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libslang-utf8.so.1 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
/sbin/ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.51.6 is truncated
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libslang-utf8.so.1.4.9 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libslang-utf8.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
cups 100 % done 3/6
Completing update for cups - 4/6
Completing update for cups-libs - 5/6
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libslang.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
/sbin/ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libnewt.so is truncated
/sbin/ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.51 is truncated
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libslang-utf8.so.1 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
/sbin/ldconfig: file /usr/lib/libnewt.so.0.51.6 is truncated
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libslang-utf8.so.1.4.9 is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
/sbin/ldconfig: /usr/lib/libslang-utf8.so is not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start.
Completing update for libtiff - 6/6
Updated: cups 1:1.1.20-11.8.i386 cups-libs 1:1.1.20-11.8.i386 libtiff 3.5.7-21.fc2.i386
Transaction(s) Complete

Its saying that several files are not an ELF file - it has the wrong magic bytes at the start. and they are truncated..any ideas what to do or how to fix?

thanks

Try going to:
http://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html...ibnewt.so.0.51

You can get it there. After downloading, type:
rpm -Uvh newt.0.51.6-2.1.1.i386.rpm

Enjoy!