Grin Node error on 'Debain' Linux Parrot Security Edition

Hello, :grinning: MW Community
GREETINGS from Anonymous

I need to install the node for the Grin Wallet for testing and help the Grin Project to consult you here grin-forum.org over the funktions works

than i start with grin in console comms this
β”Œβ”€[user@parrot]─[~/Downloads]
└──╼ $mkdir -p ~/grin
β”Œβ”€[user@parrot]─[~/Downloads]
└──╼ $tar xzf grin-v1.0.2-498013739-linux-amd64.tgz -C ~/grin
β”Œβ”€[user@parrot]─[~/Downloads]
└──╼ $echo export β€˜PATH=~/grin:$PATH’ >> ~/.bashrc
β”Œβ”€[user@parrot]─[~/Downloads]
└──╼ $source ~/.bashrc
β”Œβ”€[user@parrot]─[~/Downloads]
└──╼ $grin
grin: error while loading shared libraries: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

i use [Parrot Security Edition] Parrot is a GNU/Linux distribution based on Debian

what can i do to help and repair this error?

looks like you missed some dependencies for grin node, you could follow the build doc.

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In Ubuntu 18.10, I come across to the same problem, and fixed with:

cd /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu
ln -s libncursesw.so.6 libncursesw.so.5
ln -s libtinfo.so.6 libtinfo.so.5

In Ubuntu 18.06, this problem don’t appear.

If I follow your solution and run grin --version I get

grin: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5: version `NCURSESW_5.6.20061217' not found (required by grin)
grin: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.5: version `NCURSESW_5.1.20000708' not found (required by grin)

any suggestion?
I am using 2.0.0 binaries off GitHub on Ubuntu 18.10

Thanks

@pinoli Sorry to reply late. I have not tried 2.0.0 version yet.

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