Posted by stuarte83 on 2016-02-15 11:31

Hi artsin,

Thank you for such a swift reply. I have read your blog. You will see from the bottom of my post that I have already tried the command “sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5” that you suggest but this failed to find the package. The command and its output are shown below.

sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package lib32ncurses5

I then tried the following command which also is shown below with its output.

sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5:i386
sudo password for kub:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package lib32ncurses5

I have tried a web search and found the following site from which the package can be downloaded.

http://packages.ubuntu.com/trusty/i386/libncurses5/download

However the site states that :-

“If you are running Ubuntu, it is strongly suggested to use a package manager like aptitude or synaptic to download and install packages, instead of doing so manually via this website.”

I have tried using sysnaptic to install the package using, in turn, the names lib32ncurses5 and lib32ncurses5:i386. Each search in synaptic failed to find the package.

If I do download the file manually, I do not know :-
a) into which directory/folder it should be placed;
b) if I should run any commands after the file has been placed in the “correct” directory/folder. For example, should I run the update command (as root maybe ?) which builds a database of files placed onto the system ?

So, thank you again for such a swift reply. Sadly, I have made only a little progress in solving this.

Best regards,

Stuart