Is libncurses.so.5 missing?

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Issue

  • Is libncurses.so.5 missing from RHEL 9?
  • On RHEL 8 we have ncurses-compat-libs installed, because parts of our software depend on it.
  • Our software used ncurses-libs on RHEL 7 but now starts with error:
error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Software relying on ncurses/curses text mode library

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