[SOLVED] libtinfo.so.5 requirement for GnuGo?

1337_powerslacker · 06-22-2013, 09:59 AM

@willysr (or anyone else who knows the answer): I went to Willy's SlackHacks repository to copy the GnuGo SlackBuild. After I compiled the program and tried to execute it,however, I had two dependencies crop up. The one I took care of with a simple soft link. However, the second one has proven to be tricky. The command

Code:

 ldd $(which gnugo) | grep "not found"

revealed this:

Code:

libtinfo.so.5 => not found

I cannot come up with a package that contains this library, no matter how much I Google for it. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Matt

1337_powerslacker · 06-22-2013, 10:10 AM

After rephrasing my Google search, I found the answer here: http://forums.opensuse.org/english/get-technical-help-here/64-bit/446927-missing-library-libtinfo-so-5-a.html

Thanks in advance for the help.

Regards,

Matt

Alien Bob · 06-22-2013, 10:11 AM

It looks like you are running the program on another computer than the one where you compiled it.
You compiled it on an ARM host? Or on a machine which used my Slackware bootstrap scripts previously to build a ncurses package with libtinfo.so separated from libncurses.so?

Eric

1337_powerslacker · 06-22-2013, 10:48 AM

Greetings Eric.

I compiled GnuGo on the same machine I am running it on (x86_64). However, I found that the information required in libtinfo.so.5 was contained in libncurses.so.5 in /lib64. Symlinking them solved the problem for me.

cd /lib64
ln -s libncurses.so.5 libtinfo.so.5

I am now running Kigo, the KDE version of Go.

Thanks.