Error while loading shared libraries

[adacore]

Error while loading shared libraries

[byzantic]

Doh! @setton - of course it is! Thanks for the tip.

[keegandent]

@kalkin I had this issue on Fedora 31 and fixed it by installing ncurses-compat-libs specifying neither version nor architecture. You can get clues as to how to replace missing shared object files by performing dnf provides libncurses.so.5

For others here, perhaps this package has equivalents on your particular operating system.

[Rodeo-McCabe]

For Arch users (and some derivatives) the AUR contains ncurses5-compat-libs, which fixed the problem for me.

[setton]

Hmmm, it's a bit of a pickle, it's gtk+ or glib which require gettext, which in turn drags ncurses... so perhaps a solution is to use your version of gtk3 or glib rather than the one which ships with GPS. Or try substituting the gettext DLL?

[byzantic]

I have the same problem after upgrading from Ubuntu 18.04 to 19.04, which now uses libncurses.so.6

I have fixed the problem temporarily by just creating a link called libncurses.so.5 which points to the latest lib, but it would be nice to fix this properly ..

BTW, it seems almost impossible to get the icons to install properly in launchers in the latest default ubuntu desktop, but I think other apps have that problem as well ..

[steve-cs]

A proper fix might include building gps from source on Ubuntu 19.04 or waiting to see if the 2019 community binaries that Adacore will build have different dependencies. FWIW, last night I copied my binaries (all built from development source) from 18.04 to a new 19.04 install. The rough equivalent of "make gps; make gps-install; gps" compiled, installed and ran without significant complaint.

[setton]

@byzantic on Ubuntu 19.04 the propoer solution is to install the libncurses5 package (sudo apt-get install libncurses5). @roccr I don't know if there's an equivalent on Manjaro...

[kalkin]

Same issue with fedora 27-30. I can't use GPS on Fedora since 2017 i think, because there is no x86_64 ncurses library on fedora