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Re: libncurses5

dummy@example.com (jrico) — Wed, 20 May 2026 09:39:36 +0000

Thanks for the help. Vivadio nstalled after installing libcurses5.

Re: libncurses5

dummy@example.com (ralph.ronnquist) — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:58:22 +0000

libncurses5 is found in daedalus/main.
Assuming you are now on excalibur, one option is to add the old repository sources to your sources.list, e.g., by adding the following lines:

deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus main
deb http://deb.devuan.org/merged daedalus-security main

Then run

# apt-get upate aupdate
# apt-get install --no-install-recommends libncurses5

to get it installed (without including any "recommends" for it).

hth

Re: libncurses5

dummy@example.com (kapqa) — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:15:03 +0000

have needed this sometime for "erformancetest"

not sure if this still applies but the trick was like this
taken from performance-test forums (passmark)

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.6 /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncurses.so.5

libncurses5

dummy@example.com (jrico) — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:19:52 +0000

I need libncurses5 to install Vivado. Is there a "Devuan" way to install an old library? Thanks.