Error Message running xgterm

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pmforlife

11/06/2018 11:58PM (Read 2080 times)

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Hi.

When I open xgterm and try to run IRAF by typing "cl" it says:

/iraf/iraf/bin.linux64/vocl.e: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: Error 40

I tried to solve the problem using this solution in the forum:

\$this->_split2($m[0]) Solution:
\$this->_split2($m[0]) This is a known problem with how the binary was built and RH7
\$this->_split2($m[0]) systems. The simplest solution is to just create a symlink to
\$this->_split2($m[0]) satisfy the dependency, i.e. as 'root' do
\$this->_split2($m[0])
\$this->_split2($m[0]) # cd /usr/lib
\$this->_split2($m[0]) # ln -s libncurses.so.5 libncurses.so.4

However, it did not solved the problem.

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fitz

11/07/2018 02:53AM

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For 64-bit systems you may need to create that link in the /lib64 or /usr/lib64 directory. Note the message is coming from the IRAF 'vocl.e' binary and not XGterm itself (which is a 32-bit app)

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pmforlife

11/07/2018 01:04PM

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Quote by: fitz

For 64-bit systems you may need to create that link in the /lib64 or /usr/lib64 directory. Note the message is coming from the IRAF 'vocl.e' binary and not XGterm itself (which is a 32-bit app)

There is no a directory with "/usr/lib64" path. But there is "/lib64".
I did the same (ln -s libncurses.so.5 libncurses.so.4) in that path. Then tried again running IRAF with cl in xgterm.
The problem and error message remained the same:

/iraf/iraf/bin.linux64/vocl.e: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: Error 40

(I have ubuntu mate 18.10 desktop amd64)

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andrej

01/11/2019 12:57AM

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Greetings, I was having a closely related problem, running Ubuntu 18.10 with AMD 64, using xterm. Installed IRAF 64-bit.

I want to offer a potential solution, as I was encountering a different issue.

Ubuntu 18.10 seems to not come with the usual libncurses files, so, to get IRAF working, try this. First install the following, in Terminal:

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

then do:

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

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