From 85baac7de1b66159bdfa4173fcc3d0c7fbfa70fb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sam Tay Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 18:00:24 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Improve installation documentation, closes #3 --- README.md | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 0177f19..b95fc9b 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ chmod +x tetris sudo mv tetris /usr/local/bin/ ``` +If you are on a Linux distro other than ArchLinux, you may see an issue with these dynamically linked binaries, specifically regarding the ncurses distribution. If you see an error such as `tetris: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory`, an easy fix is to install the ncurses version 5 and then symlink the `libncursesw.so.5` library to the missing `libncursesw.so.6` library. For example, on a debian based system, +```bash +sudo apt update +sudo apt install -y libncursesw5 libncursesw5-dev +sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5 /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 +``` + #### install from source First [get stack](https://docs.haskellstack.org/en/stable/README/#how-to-install). Then ```bash