Installation failed on ubuntu due to missing libtinfo.so.5

[antonky]

Error message
error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Installing libtinfo5 fixed it. Perhaps we can update the docs?

[hdgarrood]

This is documented in INSTALL.md which is in the root of the compiler repo, and is also included in the compiler binary bundles.

[antonky]

I see, I was reading the getting started page... maybe it can be linked there?

[hdgarrood]

Yes, that's probably a good idea. I'd prefer that we statically link libtinfo in the prebuilt compiler binaries, though, so that this can't happen in the first place: purescript/purescript#3696