Problems starting GRASS for Linux

[Howard Evan Canfield]

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