Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu libncurses5

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Author: James Courtier-Dutton
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To: Peter Alefounder, Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] Ubuntu libncurses5
Hi

Try doing
ldd filename

And post the output here.
Where filename is your app.

James


On 1 Jun 2017 12:20, "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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