I would search my system for it as it claims to be installed, sometimes(I'm
not an ubuntu user...) you will find it with an extra version number so you
can just symlink it... Like:
[aaron@home-virt ~] find / -name libncurses.so.5*
/lib64/libncurses.so.5.1
Or even "find / -name libncurses.so*" to find all version of libncurses...
Then:
[aaron@home-virt ~] ln -s /lib64/libncurses.so.5 /lib64/libncurses.so.5.1
Fairly hacky... But better to find the one closest to the version you'll
need...
On Thu, Jun 1, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Peter Alefounder via Hampshire <
hampshire@???> wrote:
> I have recently acquired a laptop running Ubuntu.
>
> There is a specific text editor that I would like to have working
> on it (I have it on my Debian desktop system). When I try to use
> it on the laptop, I get this:
>
> error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open
> shared object file: No such file or directory
>
> I have tried installing libncurses5, which is supposed to include
> libncurses.so.5, by downloading the package, moving it to
> /var/cache/apt/archives/ and then using apt-get install (apt-get
> was not able to find it for itself). However, apt-get gave the
> message:
>
> libncurses5 is already the newest version
>
> I don't know what else to try. Any ideas on how to solve this,
> please?
>
> Peter Alefounder.
>
>
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