libncurses.so.5

I have a small sctipt called dict under my /usr/local/bin.

# cat dict
#!/usr/bin/ksh -f

set word=$1

# lynx is a text-based browser
# available free on the web/net.
lynx -cfg=/dev/null -dump " http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=${word}" | more

The PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables are as follows:

# echo $PATH
/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/ssl/bin:/usr/local/mysql/bin:/usr/ccs/bin
#
# echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/local/ssl/lib:/usr/local/bin

When I try to run this script (/usr/local/bin/dict), the following error is returned.

# /usr/local/bin/dict
ld.so.1: lynx: fatal: libncurses.so.5: open failed: No such file or directory

In fact I have downloaded and installed libncurses.so.5 from http://www.autistici.org/bolic1/tools/packets/

Your help is appreciated and thanks in advance.

What O/S are you on? My libncurses.so.5 is in /usr/lib on my FC3 machine. I don't have one on my Solaris 10 machine - that is the "new" curses library and it would have to be installed.

The OS details are:

SunOS zeus 5.9 Generic_112233-10 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-5_10

The libncurses.so.5 was not there on my system by default. I have installed this from the below mentioned site.

http://www.autistici.org/bolic1/tools/packets/

At first I have installed this program under my home directory and then moved it to /usr/local/bin to make it compatible with PATH and LD_PATH_LIBRARY variables. The installation of this program looks little different. Once I unzipped and untar the package there was a directory by name 'usr' under which one more directory by name 'lib'. The libncurses.so.5 file was under that lib directory.In fact there are two simialr files which I have moved to /usr/lib.

They are:
# ls -la /usr/lib | grep libncurses.so.5.0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 Aug 2 14:57 libncurses.so.5 -> libncurses.so.5.0
-rwxr--r-- 1 root root 233816 Nov 21 2000 libncurses.so.5.0

Now the problem is when I attempt to run the script

# /usr/local/bin/dict
ld.so.1: lynx: fatal: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5: wrong ELF data format: ELFDATA2LSB

Any ideas? I want to run this script and check the functioning of the dictionary.

Thanks in advance

I'm not so sure about the link you provided - it looks like that is for Linux.

I would suggest getting ncurses 5.4 for Solaris 9 / Sparc from Sun Freeware. It doesn't look like there is a precompiled "dict" program but you can at least get ncurses installed.

Now I have libncurses on my system wiht in the scope of PATH.

# find / -name libncurses* -print
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5
/usr/lib/libncurses.so.5.0

The problem is with ELF data format as shown below.

# /usr/local/bin/dict
ld.so.1: lynx: fatal: /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5: wrong ELF data format: ELFDATA2LSB


By the by 'dict' is a small script I am trying to run.

# cat /usr/local/bin/dict
#!/usr/bin/ksh -f
set word=$1
# lynx is a text-based browser
# available free on the web/net.
lynx -cfg=/dev/null -dump " http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=${word}" | more


Thanks in advance.