error while loading shared libraries: libtinfow.so.6

[orsenthil]

When I installed master on my computer, it failed with the error message

htop: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfow.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

[fasterit]

Your ncurses is probably build without --enable-widec, so compile htop as a non-unicode build (./configure --disable-unicode) or use a better distro.

[rubyFeedback]

I also often had that error; always confused me.

Note that the "use a better distro" comment is a bit problematic, because:

a) it may be that folks compiled from source, yet still run into that problem

AND

b) it implies that the distribution he uses is not a "good" distribution, so
a "better" one should be used.

IMO both are problematic impications. I would highly recommend to prefer
to the suggested solution as-is; IMO ncurses should have wide character
support. (Oddly enough, I think htop build scripts are doing something
not every other ncurses build is using ... I have had cases where htop
did not compile but other ncurses variants compiled fine.)