Error "NCURSES_TINFO_6.2.current" not found

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Bug Summary

lightning-services/ - /bin/linux/shared-libs/ does not contain newest libtinfo.so.5

I encountered an error when libncurses.so.5 could not find “NCURSES_TINFO_6.2.current”

I solved the issue by updating the libtinfo.so.5 file in the /shared-libs/ directory in lightning-services directory with the newest that contains NCURSES_TINFO_6.2.current

Environment Info

Debian distro ( Pure OS 10 )

/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5.9

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You saved me! You will have my eternal gratitude :star_struck:

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I am facing a similar problem and I have a few questions.

  • Which version of LocalWP were you using at the time?
  • Could you please provide more details about how you updated the libtinfo.so.5 file? Where did you obtain the newer version, and how did you replace the file within the lightning-services directory?
  • What was the exact version of your Debian distribution? Are you using any custom configurations or modifications to your system?
  • Have you encountered any issues or unexpected behavior in LocalWP after updating the library file?
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@espenm or @Pacotole do you have any steps you could share on how you were able to resolve this? Thanks!

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Copy your system /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5.9 into your Local /shared-libs/ directory in lightning-services directory e.g. /home/username/.config/Local/lightning-services/php-8.2.20+0/bin/linux/shared-libs.

The version or the file name may vary. I’m not sure because I don’t remember well, but I think the error gave you the name of the file that had to be replaced.

In my case I had to replace the libstdc++.so.6 file. I found it because I renamed the original as libstdc++.so.6__old and searched for “__old”.

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Thank you @Pacotole! @dcampbell let us know if that works for you?

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Thanks @Pacotole

based on your information i managed to identify the relevant directory

/home/username/.config/Local/lightning-services/php-7.4.30+6/bin/linux/shared-libs

Now I need to find the libtinfo.so.5 file with the version NCURSES_TINFO_6.2.20211010 on my system or download it from another source.

it’s this second step that’s proving elusive.

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Sorry, I’m not a system expert. In my case, I have an Ubuntu 24 and the files are located in /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/

Try to search on Google how to install or locate files of ncurses libraries…

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We managed to solve this issue.

Basically we had multiple version of the libtinfo library and the system got confused which one to use, so i checked all the version that we had in our system (3 versions)
I tried two and the second one worked.

But let me explain the solution in more detail for future reference:

We had two versions that were downloaded through

apt: /lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6.4 /lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5

and one version in the folder that came with localWP

What i did is backed up the version that came with localWP because it clearly wasn’t working by moving it to some other path.

Then I started by linking the apt directory in the shared-libs folder to force the localWP binary to use them.

So I used a trick to link them exactly to this

/lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.6.4 /lib/x86\_64-linux-gnu/libtinfo.so.5

(the 5 in the end means version 5) even if the version isn’t 5.0 and that made it work as expected.

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Thank you for following up and sharing this @dcampbell!