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XNova42

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Registered: 2015-04-30

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[SOLVED] ...error loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5 ...

The title sums most of it up. After I Syu'd  recently whenever I try to use something like ncmpcpp or tty-clock I get:

error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

However, other things that use ncurses (if I'm not mistaken), like htop, weechat, alsamixer, etc., do not give me this error. I've never seen Arch do this before, so hopefully one of you wizards have, thanks in advance for the help.

Last edited by XNova42 (2015-09-29 03:40:09)

Allan

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Re: [SOLVED] ...error loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5 ...

Rebuild your AUR packages that use ncurses.

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Re: [SOLVED] ...error loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5 ...

tty-clock seems to be a foreign package not maintained in official repos. You have to rebuild it yourself against new versions of dependencies when they're being upgraded.

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XNova42

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Re: [SOLVED] ...error loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5 ...

Rebuild your AUR packages that use ncurses.

Wow, that was easy. Thanks a bunch stranger!