error loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file

[pjaramillo]

I am using Ubuntu-Mate 21.10, installed FBC but I get this error when running it.
> fbc: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Does anyone knows how to solve this problem?

Thanks

pjaramillo

[fxm]

Perhaps look at Installing, paragraph "Compiling under Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, 64-bit".

[Munair]

I had the exact same error on Manjaro, which I reported here: viewtopic.php?f=17&t=29432&start=180#p288596.

In my case, this is because Manjaro currently has libtinfo.so.6.

[Kuan Hsu]

If x86_64, try https://sourceforge.net/projects/fbc/fi ... ntu-20.04/

[caseih]

The canonical (no pun intended) solution for Ubuntu is to install the missing library. The distro package you are looking for is libncurses5 (and maybe also you might need libncurses5-devel). This can be installed along side the version 6 that Ubuntu installs by default. You can install them via apt on the terminal, or using the package manager GUI program.

[Munair]

The PKGBUILD provided by the package (right now) is broken. The maintainer has been provided a working PKGBUILD but just hasn't updated the package yet for some reason. I used the linked PKGBUILD to manually build from source and it worked. I

What OS (distro) are you referring to?

I used PKGBUILD for Manjaro and successfully compiled and installed fbc on Arch-based distro's. The dependency for this build is the latest ncurses, not ncurses5. For installation instructions, see viewtopic.php?p=289357#p289357

In case you wish to build the package yourself, here is the PKGBUILD I use.

[oldtimer]

Same problem when Freebasic 1.09 loaded into Fedora 35.