On 01/06/17 12:15, Peter Alefounder via 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 assume it's a closed source editor? > 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? ncurses in the current Ubuntu is at ncurses6, but I don't know how far the ABI has changed between 5 and 6. It *might* be worth trying installing 6 and creating a softlink from libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.6 Chris -- Please post to: [email protected] Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
