[Techtalk] debian and shared libraries

[Maria McKinley]

Hi there,

I installed a deb package, which fails with the following error message:

/usr/sbin/afacli: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: 
cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

However, libncurses.so.5 does exist

maude:~# ls /lib/libnc*
/lib/libncurses.so.5    /lib/libncursesw.so.5
/lib/libncurses.so.5.6  /lib/libncursesw.so.5.6

I have no idea how to go about telling the program where to look for the 
library. Not sure to even find out where the program is currently 
looking. Someone told me they thought it was some weirdness with the way 
debian handles shared libraries and paths. Anyone know anything about this?

thanks,
maria