Problems starting GRASS for Linux

[grass at genie.saff.utah.edu]

I have been using ncurses on Kernels 2.0.29 and .30 as my CURSES lib.  No
problems.

Jason Carey
Snow Hydrology
University of Utah

On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, Howard Evan Canfield wrote:

> Andreas Paukner-Ruzicka wrote:
> > 
> > Hello !
> > I just installed GRASS 4.1.5 on my Linux-System (Kernel 2.0.29), but when starting with
> > GRASS4.1 I got the following error-message:
> > /home/lingrass415/etc/gis_set: Can't load library libcurses.so.1
> > What can I do to run GRASS ?
> > There is no file libcurses.so.1 on my system, so where can I get it from or what file
> > do I have to symbolically link to the name libcurses.so.1 ? I tried it with linking libcurses.so.0.1.2 to
> > libcurses.so.1 but with the same result.
> > 
> > Thanks for your help in advance !
> > 
> > ________________________________________
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> 
> I too have been having problems getting GRASS 4.1 to run on Linux
> 2.0.29.  I had been using GRASS4.1 on Linux 1.12.13 (Slackware 3.0).  I
> updated my Linux and now I'm getting the can't load libcurses.so.1
> message.  I made sure that this file is in the /usr/lib location.  
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> Howard Evan Canfield
>