On few Linux platforms, the following error may be seen: “error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”
Problem
On Linux RHEL 8.0 and above, the following errors may be seen while launching a few NetBackup Utilities:
Error Message
error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Cause
On RedHat 8 and above, the libncurses.so.5 binary is not available by default. The binaries are required by various NetBackup Utilities to operate.
Following are the dependent library versions available according to platforms.
- RHEL 7 has libncurses.so.5 as default library.
- RHEL 8 has libncurses.so.6.1 as the default library. However, libncurses.so.5 is also available for download from RedHat Repository
- RHEL 9 has libncurses.so.6.2 as the default.
Solution
On RHEL 8.x and above, search for the existing binary libncurses.so.6.x and libtinfo.so.6.x as part of ncurses-libs-6.x rpm package and create a soft link as shown below.
ln -s "/usr/lib64/libncurses.so.6.1" "/usr/lib64/libncurses.so.5"
ln -s "/usr/lib64/libtinfo.so.6.1" "/usr/lib64/libtinfo.so.5"
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