Unable to find ncurses library

Question

I've run into a problem with Wine/winetricks, where I get the following error:

Wine cannot find the ncurses library (libncurses.so.6).

However, running sudo apt install libncurses6 just gives me a notification that the package is already installed

Running 18.10

N0rbert · Accepted Answer · 2020-10-09 10:34:57Z

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Wine may need 32-bit library.

You can install it with

sudo apt-get install libncurses5:i386 libncurses6:i386

and then retry.

answered Dec 3, 2018 at 12:13

N0rbert

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Perfect. Thanks. Will accept when the time limit is up.
– hiigaran
Commented Dec 3, 2018 at 12:19
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In my case the error was Wine cannot find the ncurses library (libncurses.so.5). and the solution was sudo apt-get install libncurses5:i386
– user207863
Commented Nov 23, 2019 at 20:50

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Ibster · Accepted Answer · 2020-09-01 05:00:35Z

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Run these commands Below:

Wine may need a 32 bit library You can install it with :

sudo apt-get install libncurses6:i386

and then try :

sudo apt-get install libncurses5:i386

That should work..

Output terminal

answered May 4, 2020 at 6:01

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Jegan · Accepted Answer · 2022-11-16 10:51:09Z

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Below command fixed it for me if nothing above helps.

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev

answered Nov 16, 2022 at 10:51

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