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Error: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.6 #82
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Well, do you have ncurses installed somewhere? I'm not sure which ubuntu package provides |
On Debian Buster, I did |
Yeah, that's a somewhat confusing part of the docs. It says ncurses is needed, but debian-based distro's often bundle various (development) libs separately from the main package. |
All available packages with a prefix libncursesw are called libncursesw5*. Since I did ./configure and compile the software I would have thought that thiese kinds of things are being dealt with in the configure step? |
I had the same issue - compiling htop version 3.0.5-dev, also on Ubuntu 18.04, also with libncursesw5* installed:
The solution is to disable unicode support in config:
Seemingly the new version of htop has optional unicode support which needs libncursesw6 - which can |
@GHPS 18.04 doesn't have libncursesw6 as you can see from https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libncursesw6 |
Yes - that is what I wrote. And what caused the error in the first place... |
On Ubuntu 20.04, after installation (from 3.0.0 tarball or github master) I get the error message:
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