Binary: ncurses error on Ubuntu 19.04

[quentinlesceller]

Follow up of #2106.
It appears that it is currently not possible to run Grin binary on Ubuntu 19.04.
The issue lies in the fact that Ubuntu 19.04 uses ncurses 6 and the binary is compiled for ncurses 5.

Fixes tried:

sudo apt install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

which results in:

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

cd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
ln -s libncursesw.so.6 libncursesw.so.5
ln -s libtinfo.so.6 libtinfo.so.5

which results in:

./grin: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5: version NCURSES_TINFO_5.0.19991023' not found (required by ./grin)
./grin: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5: versionNCURSESW_5.6.20061217' not found (required by ./grin)
./grin: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5: version `NCURSESW_5.1.20000708' not found (required by ./grin)

[quentinlesceller]

FTR the current solution for 19.04 is to build from sources.

[quentinlesceller]

@FTLIan

This can be fixed with the following command:

sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev

[FTLIan]

That I'd already done. Trying it again results in:

libncursesw5-dev is already the newest version (6.1+20181013-2ubuntu2).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.

Still getting these when running grin:
/grin$ ./grin
./grin: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5: version NCURSES_TINFO_5.0.19991023' not found (required by ./grin) ./grin: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5: version NCURSESW_5.6.20061217' not found (required by ./grin)
./grin: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5: version `NCURSESW_5.1.20000708' not found (required by ./grin)

Thanks so much for the effort. Or were you saying I need to build grin from the source code to get this running? Man, all I wanted to do was get my grin off the exchange. This has turned into quite a task!

[quentinlesceller]

You can either build from source or install the ncurses library. I tried several packages with ncurses5 and one of them worked (Not sure if that helps... You can take a look here https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=ncurses&searchon=names&suite=disco&section=all).

[FTLIan]

I installed libncurses5 and 6 and w and it's working now. Thank you.