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jrico

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Registered: 2025-06-09

Posts: 5  

libncurses5

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

kapqa

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Registered: 2019-01-02

Posts: 663  

Re: libncurses5

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

ralph.ronnquist

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From: Battery Point, Tasmania, AUS

Registered: 2016-11-30

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Re: libncurses5

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

jrico

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Registered: 2025-06-09

Posts: 5  

Re: libncurses5

Thanks for the help.  Vivadio nstalled after installing libcurses5.