Nano issue

[RW]

On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 10:15:35 -0400
r17fbsd at xxiii.com wrote:

> At 07:25 AM 8/2/2007, Roberth Sjonøy wrote:
> >Hello, Ive just installed my prefered text 
> >editor, nano, but when im going to run nano, this just appears:
> >/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object 
> >"libncursesw.so.6" not found , required by "nano"
> 
> I have nano 2.0.6 installed from packages (not ports) and it works
> fine on 6.2.
> 
> I also have that library with the same date as my last buildworld:
> 
> $ ls -l /lib/*curs*
> -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  268108 Jan 14  2007 /lib/libncurses.so.6
>
but do you have libncursesw.so.6 - note the 'w'

The most likely scenario is that he's trying to use a 6-stable package
on 6.2. This something that people tend to get away with, but is not
actually supported.

Either build the port or install the correct package.