Solaris

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 does your $LD_LIBRARY_PATH read ?

you have to set this in order to find the lib files.. so if you do

LD_LIBRARY_PATH=<PATH TO WHERE libncurses.so.5 IS>

doh clearly never read that rite.. but looks like that what the problem is LD_LIBRARY_PATH doesn't have this lib in it..

p

I guess the question is .. where did you install libcurses.so.5? :-)

Thanks for your interest.

I have set libncurses on my system as desired which is evident from the following output.

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

libncurses on my system is in the scope of PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH variables.
# 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


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

Once again thanks in advance for your help.

Looks like you've got the wrong version of libncurses installed ... I've no idea what architecture its supposed to be for from the site you've downloaded it from.

I would get the package from www.sunfreeware.com which has solaris packages for most common versions of solaris for many many free packages.