[GRASSLIST:1663] Re: error starting grass5

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 06:16:35PM +0000, Glynn Clements wrote:
> 
> Erven Coronado wrote:
> 
> > i'm installing succesfull grass5, but this error is present:
> > 
> > /usr/local/grass5/etc/set_data: error in loading shared libraries:
> > libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or
> > directory
> > 
> > but libncurses is installed,
> 
> What do you mean by installed? If you mean "it exists somewhere on the
> filesystem", that isn't good enough. The loader needs to know where to
> find it. The details depend upon your platform, but ...

You need ncurses5 library to be installed. Be sure to run "ldconfig"
afterwards. Then it should be ok.

Regards

 Markus Neteler