[GRASSLIST:4262] Re: [GRASSLIST:4258] Re: can´t start grass5

[Markus Neteler]

On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 09:32:13PM -0700, Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 05:02:42PM -0500, Roberto Rosado Solorzano wrote:
> > Hello everybody . . .
> > I'm a begginer with GRASS  and i've just downloaded and installed a 
> > precompiled binary named
> > 
> > grass-5.0.0pre3-sol8-sparc-opt.gz with pkgadd -d command
> > 
> > on a Sun Blade 100 workstation  in  /opt/GNUgrass/
> > 
> > i've followed the instructions in 
> > http://grass.itc.it/grass5/binary/solaris_sun/
> > after that, when i pretend to run the program, first i got a wellcoming 
> > screen that ends with "hit any key" then i got this warning and the 
> > program running is killed
> > "ld.so.1: /opt/GNUgrass/grass5/etc/set_data: fatal: libncurses.so.5: 
> > open failed: No such file or directory
> > Killed"
> > 
> > maybe some applet is missing??    would you lend me a hand please
> 
> libncurses is a "curses" library which does the dirty work of drawing
> characters at arbitrary places in a terminal (among other things).  It's
> pretty widely used in GRASS.  You'll need to locate and install a copy
> of libncurses.so.5 for Solaris in order to use that binary.

Have a look into REQUIREMENTS.html (in your source code or online)
to find out where the libs for Solaris are available.

Markus