libncurses5 - Linux Mint/Ubuntu

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Bluefeather42
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libncurses5 - Linux Mint/Ubuntu

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I got another one. Switched back to Linux Mint (starting to regret it) and when installing the latest nightly from the .deb package, I'm getting an error "ohrrpgce depends on libncurses5 (>= 5.4); however: Package libncurses5 is not installed."
Since I'm basically on Ubuntu, libncurses6 is the version in the repos.
I was able to actually get OHR running, but now every time I use apt update it starts complaining about how OHR is "broken" since I don't have libncurses5.
apt --fix-broken-install" worked in Debian, since libncurses5 is still in the repos. Moving back to Debian would fix this for now.
Is there any plan to use curses6, and/or should I use the tar.gz version instead of a .deb package?
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Re: libncurses5 - Linux Mint/Ubuntu

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Oh. Actually, we don't depend on libncurses (nor libtinfo nor libtermcap) at all in any (official) linux builds; we haven't since 2020. So that dependency should be deleted from the .deb file. Thanks for pointing that out. Done.
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Re: libncurses5 - Linux Mint/Ubuntu

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Excellent! Thank you!
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