libncurses problem

Markus Neteler neteler at geog.uni-hannover.de
Sat Apr 3 04:04:28 EST 1999


> > I installed the linux binaries in my Caldera Open Linux 1.3 system
> > following the web page instructions and get the following error message:
> > /usr/local/grass5/etc/gis_set:  can't load library 'libcurses.so.1'
> 
> The problem is that the guy who made those binaries has the
> 'curses' library and you don't.  If you don't have
> /usr/lib/libncurses.so.1 on your system, then you should install
> it, or /usr/lib/libcurses.so.1, from the distribution media.
 
Well, this guy was me :-)
This will be the last binary distribution based on curses.
The 4.2.1 GRASS Linux binaries are already compiled with ncurses,
I will do it for GRASS 5.0 Linux binaries as well soon.

Sorry for any problems

  Markus Neteler



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