Problem with PHP, libncursesw and Arch

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manpreet Tuteehub forum best answer Best Answer 2 years ago

After doing a system upgrade, whenever trying to use php it complains:

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

Sure, it's because I now have libncursesw.so.6

Any workaround?

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manpreet 2 years ago

I had not upgraded my Arch server in a few weeks: ncurses has indeed changed to version 6 as of early September, but PHP should have been upgraded with it.

The quick-n-dirty fix is: pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/ncurses-5.9-7-i686.pkg.tar.xz

You can install PHP via pacman. There'a a number of pieces that I've found necessary, including phpphp-apachephp-gdphp-sqlite. If you're compiling PHP from source to stay at a particular version, I'm not sure that's a good idea as PHP gets patched a lot. It would be hard to keep up with the security patches compiling everything yourself.


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