Question:

After the (successful?) installation of GRASS I get the following error message:

 
Starting GRASS ...
/usr/local/grass5/etc/set_data: error while loading shared libraries:
   libtermcap.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
What to do?

Answer:

After the installation of the termcap library, GRASS will work.

E.g., for SuSe Linux: the termcap library is located in package series [a]

Failing that, try creating a symbolic link, e.g. 

        cd /lib
        ln -s libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libtermcap.so.2
(Use a path and version which is correct for your system.)

On systems which don't have a separate libtermcap, the functionality which it provides is often included in libncurses.

$Date: 2002-10-30 11:14:17 +0000 (Wed, 30 Oct 2002) $
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