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Hello Alan!

*** Saturday 31.07.21 at 05:45, Alan Ianson wrote to Martin Foster:

 >>> Sure, I have a recent golded that runs on linux. If you are having
 >>> trouble running golded on linux I would try a fresh install.
 >>> https://github.com/golded-plus/golded-plus
 >> I've downloaded the 64-Bit tarball from there and installed it but I can't
 >> get it to run on my new Manjaro system.

 AI> That can be a problem with pre-compiled programs on linux.

Yep, sure can.

 >> First attempt, it complained about missing ncurses5 libs, so I installed
 >> ncurses5-compat-libs from the Manjaro AUR repo.
 >> Second attempt, it compalined about this:
 >> golded: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5: version `NCURSES_5.0.19991023' not found
 >> (required by golded).

 AI> You probably don't need the -compat ncurses. On Slackware I build with
 AI> ncurses-6.2_20201219 and golded builds fine.

Yeah, that's correct .....
---------- 8< ----------
[martin@sgc ~]$ ldd /usr/bin/gedlnx
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffeb7bbc000)
libncursesw.so.6 => /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007fed69760000) <<===
libstdc++.so.6 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007fed69548000)
libm.so.6 => /usr/lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007fed69400000)
libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007fed693e0000)
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fed69210000)
/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 => /usr/lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2  
(0x00007fed699b8000)
[martin@sgc ~]$
---------- 8< ----------

 >> What now?

 AI> Did you grab fresh sources from github? If not grab them from the above
 AI> URL and let us know if the problem persists.

Yes, I grabbed the source and it compiled without errors and my shiny new  
copy of 'gedlnx' runs as sweet as a nut :))

Thanks for your help.

Regards,
Martin

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