libncursesw.so.5 is installed but a program that needs it says "No such file or directory"

Question

I'm running Ubuntu 20.04 and I am trying to run a program as such:

 ~/junk/cataclysmdda-0.E$ ./cataclysm

which returns

error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have tried a few things like, sudo apt-get install libncurses5 with no luck. If I search for libncurses.so.5 in my system I find 3 of them in different parts of the /snap directory. Maybe the program is not looking there? If so I don't no how to fix that. I also found this advice:

root@examplehost ~]# ln -s /usr/lib64/libncurses.so.6.1 /usr/lib64/libncurses.so.5

So using that I tried to link one of the libncurses.so.5 files in /usr/lib/ and when that didn't work in /usr/lib64/ (I thought that was logical but I don't have a clue), still no luck.

Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

sudo apt-get install libncursesw5