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  2. MDEV-34562

tarballs link dynamically with ncurses5 - don't work on RHEL8+9

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    • Bug
    • Status: Closed (View Workflow)
    • Major
    • Resolution: Duplicate
    • 10.6.18
    • N/A
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    Description

      The Community Server binary tarball packages service multiple operating systems. The mariadb client binary is dynamically compiled against ncurses 5, RHEL8 and RHEL9 have ncurses 6 installed by default. When the client binary is executed users get the following error:

      mysql: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
      

      The solution to this issue is to install the package ncurses-compat-libs which is available for RHEL8 and RHEL9 in the EPEL repository and provides the ncurses.so.5 library:
      https://access.redhat.com/solutions/6907421

      We should update the README.md or INSTALL-BINARY files to include this information for customers running RHEL8 or RHEL9.

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              serg Sergei Golubchik
              Ali.maria Alasdair Haswell
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