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nitralime

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Registered: 2009-12-30

Posts: 63

libtinfo

Hello folks!

I'm searching for a package containing "libtinfo.so.5".
Is there such a package in the repository at all?

Regards
Nik

GogglesGuy

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From: Rocket City

Registered: 2005-03-29

Posts: 610

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Re: libtinfo

See: http://bit.ly/LGp0Ck

Pres

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Registered: 2011-09-12

Posts: 423

Re: libtinfo

$ pkgfile libtinfo.so.5
community/cuda-toolkit

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: libtinfo

Please read the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FA … is_X_in.3F :-)

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

Posts: 3,742

Re: libtinfo

$ pkgfile libtinfo.so.5
community/cuda-toolkit

That's pretty strange, since it's provided by ncurses on my (non-Arch) system. Also on Debian.

Perhaps because we compile ncurses with:  --with-termlib=tinfo

Edit: Bah. Is confusing

Last edited by brebs (2012-05-31 17:05:14)

nitralime

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Registered: 2009-12-30

Posts: 63

Re: libtinfo

I have solved the dependency problem which I was confronted with
by creating a symbolic link

$ cd /usr/lib
$ sudo ln -s libncurses.so.5 libtinfo.so.5

Installing cuda-toolkit just to get libtinfo.so is not the right solution.
In many other distributions libtinfo.so is part of ncurses library.
Why not in Archlinux?

PS: @GogglesGuy: Your comment is not very helpful!!

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: libtinfo

You didn't say what do you need this library for, but you can always ask on the mailing list why doesn't Arch Linux provide it.

GogglesGuy

Member

From: Rocket City

Registered: 2005-03-29

Posts: 610

Website

Re: libtinfo

I have solved the dependency problem which I was confronted with
by creating a symbolic link

$ cd /usr/lib
$ sudo ln -s libncurses.so.5 libtinfo.so.5

Installing cuda-toolkit just to get libtinfo.so is not the right solution.
In many other distributions libtinfo.so is part of ncurses library.
Why not in Archlinux?

PS: @GogglesGuy: Your comment is not very helpful!!

Sure it was. The first search result was very relevant to the discussion.

xyzjq10293856

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Registered: 2020-04-17

Posts: 1

Re: libtinfo

Those users that got here because of getting the following error while executing `scilab` (downloaded from the official website)

```
$ ./bin/scilab-cli
scilab-cli-bin: error while loading shared libraries: libtinfo.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
```

I executed the following command in order to get rid of that error and succesfully exexute `scilab-cli`

```
$ doas ln -s /lib/libncursesw.so.6.2 /lib/libtinfo.so.5
$ I ./bin/scilab-cli
Scilab 6.1.0 (Feb 25 2020, 10:58:38)

-->
```

Note that I selected `libncursesw.so.6.2` because I didn't have the version (see below) that @nitralime mentioned in his/her reply above.

```
$ ls -l /lib/libncurses*
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     20 Feb 13 03:08 /lib/libncurses++.so
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     18 Feb 13 03:08 /lib/libncurses.so
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 Feb 13 03:08 /lib/libncurses++w.so -> libncurses++w.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     16 Feb 13 03:08 /lib/libncursesw.so -> libncursesw.so.6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     20 Feb 13 03:08 /lib/libncurses++w.so.6 -> libncurses++w.so.6.2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root     18 Feb 13 03:08 /lib/libncursesw.so.6 -> libncursesw.so.6.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  71480 Feb 13 03:08 /lib/libncurses++w.so.6.2
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 457736 Feb 13 03:08 /lib/libncursesw.so.6.2
```

Slithery

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From: Norfolk, UK

Registered: 2013-12-01

Posts: 5,776

Re: libtinfo

Please read the Code of conduct before posting again, especially with incorrect information.

Closing.

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