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Fix for error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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I manually updated ncurses without all the other packages. When running bash or ldd, I received

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

My fix was

ln -s /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.6 /usr/lib/libncursesw.so.5

I was running Arch Linux ARMv7

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