Install fails on systems with ncurses6 only

[wimstefan]

Trying to install fzf I get this error:

Downloading bin/fzf ...

• Creating symlink: bin/fzf-0.10.3-linux_amd64 -> bin/fzf
• Checking fzf executable ... /home/swimmer/.fzf/bin/fzf: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory != 0.10.3
• Creating symlink: bin/fzf-0.10.3-linux_amd64 -> bin/fzf
• Checking fzf executable ... /home/swimmer/.fzf/bin/fzf: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory != 0.10.3
• Invalid binary !!!

That happens on a Gentoo system with only ncurses-6.0 installed ...

[junegunn]

Thanks for the report, I'll see what I can do.

Since I don't have experience with Gentoo; Is it possible to install ncurses5 as well on the system? Can it be easily done?

[wimstefan]

As far as I'm aware and capable to try out I'm afraid it's not possible.
The developers are aware of the problems having only ncurses6 installed on a system:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558052

[wimstefan]

JFYI: the problem seems to be limited to the amd63 platform ... out of curiosity I ran the install script on my laptop which is still on the x86 platform (but with only ncurses6) installed and it competed the install without problems B-)

Downloading bin/fzf ...

• Creating symlink: bin/fzf-0.10.3-linux_386 -> bin/fzf
• Checking fzf executable ... 0.10.3

[junegunn]

Thanks for the info. I'm mostly on OSX and haven't been able to find Gentoo system to try things out. I was trying to find a docker image for it so I can locally boot up the environment. FYI, I'm building the linux binaries on Arch VM set up with docker; https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/blob/master/src/Dockerfile.arch

[junegunn]

@wimstefan Hey, can you check if this statically-linked binary works on the platform?

https://github.com/junegunn/fzf-bin/releases/download/0.10.4/fzf-0.10.4-linux_amd64-static.tgz

If it works, I'm going to update the install script to download it when the dynamic one fails.

[wimstefan]

Hi junnegun, I finally had a chance to test it and it works!
Sorry for coming back late :-/

[junegunn]

No problem. Thanks for the confirmation. I updated the install script to download the static binary when the dynamic one doesn't run.