cannot load libcurses.so.1.

[David Hine]

Hello List
I'd welcome some advice on how to get GRASS to load 'libcurses.so.1 ' 
After the first text screen, I press ENTER and get the message that 
~grass416/bin/etc/gis_set       cannot load libcurses.so.1.
I have that file but it doesn't get loaded. As a novice, I am uncertain
what I need to learn/do to fix this.
Any advice on how to achieve this or on what needs to be done?
David