Have you done an slocate libncurses* to see if any of the ncurses libraries are lurking on your system?
On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 08:38, Terry Coles <d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > With Hamish's help, I've got as far as logging into the WMT Database > over ssh; it appears that my keys didn't match. > > I'm now back to trying to access the database using the MySQL Client in > a shell. Originally, I was getting a problem owing to a mismatch > between the Version on the server (5.1.56) and the version provided by > Ubuntu 23.04 (8.033). I uninstalled the package mysql-client-8.0, and > downloaded MySQL-client-5.1.56-1.glibc23.x86_64.rpm from the MySQL > website, (there is no deb available). I then used alien to convert the > rpm to a deb format and installed it. > > However, when I tried to run this, I got: > > terry@OptiPlex:~/Useful$ mysql -u <username> -p -h 192.168.0.25 mysql: > error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open > shared object file: No such file or directory > > Clearly there is an incompatibility here with the kernel. Does this mean > I cannot use it on this machine without (perhaps) running everything in > a VM? > > -- > Terry Coles > > > -- > Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-08-01 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2023-08-01 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
