Unable to find ncurses library

Question

I've run into a problem with Wine/winetricks, where I get the following error:

Wine cannot find the ncurses library (libncurses.so.6).

However, running sudo apt install libncurses6 just gives me a notification that the package is already installed

Running 18.10

N0rbert · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-09T10:34:57.217

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Wine may need 32-bit library.

You can install it with

sudo apt-get install libncurses5:i386 libncurses6:i386

and then retry.

edited Oct 09 '20 at 10:34

answered Dec 03 '18 at 12:13

N0rbert

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Perfect. Thanks. Will accept when the time limit is up. – hiigaran Dec 03 '18 at 12:19
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In my case the error was Wine cannot find the ncurses library (libncurses.so.5). and the solution was sudo apt-get install libncurses5:i386 – user207863 Nov 23 '19 at 20:50

Ibster · Answer 2 · 2020-09-01T05:00:35.347

3

Run these commands Below:

Wine may need a 32 bit library You can install it with :

sudo apt-get install libncurses6:i386

and then try :

sudo apt-get install libncurses5:i386

That should work..

Output terminal

edited Sep 01 '20 at 05:00

answered May 04 '20 at 06:01

Ibster

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 16 '22 at 10:51

0

Below command fixed it for me if nothing above helps.

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

answered Nov 16 '22 at 10:51

Jegan