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 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?
Any possibility your mysterious editor is a 32-bit binary, you've only
installed a 64-bit libncurses.so.5, and therefore need to install
libncurses5:i386.
On my Ubuntu 16.04 machine "apt-get install libncurses5:i386" results in
/lib32/libncurses.so.5
(The 64-bit version is already installed in
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5, and removing it would break quite
a lot of packages.)
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