Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2015-08-18, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Alan Grimes wrote:
>>> tortoise ~ # revdep-rebuild
>>> /bin/bash: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot
>>> open shared object file: No such file or directory
> [...]
>
>> Did you update ncurses by any chance?  According to a look up, that
>> file belongs to that package.  I might also add, I don't have that
>> file here at all.  Sort of odd that I don't have it but portage works
>> fine here. 
> I don't have any libtinfo.<whatever> on any of my systems either.  By
> default, I don't think a separate libtinfo is built.  One suggestion I
> saw for this problem (on a different distro) is to symlink libtinfo to
> libncurses.
>


I did a google search, I got three or four hits.  That sort of makes me
think that there is a bad setting somewhere.  Since no one else has
posted about this, I doubt a dev did it because if they did, I'd think
others would be hitting this problem too. 

Maybe we will get some replies from the OP soon. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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