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libtinfo.so.6: no version information available message using conda environment


I have a conda environment setup and had to set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH like this:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$HOME/.miniconda3/envs/ll4ma/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH

However as soon as I did this, I started getting my terminal flooded with this message:

/bin/bash: /home/ll4ma/.miniconda3/envs/ll4ma/lib/libtinfo.so.6: no version information available (required by /bin/bash)

Any idea how to fix this? I'm building some code for ROS with catkin and this message gets printed maybe 20 times in the process, which makes the terminal output very hard to look at.


Solution

  • It turns out that the version of libtinfo (installed as part of ncurses) doesn't provide its version info as suggested in this related answer. I was able to resolve this by forcing ncurses to be installed from the conda-forge channel instead of the default. In my YAML config for my conda env I simply did this:

    dependencies:
      - conda-forge::ncurses
    

    If installing from command line you can do

    conda install -c conda-forge ncurses
    

    If you don't specify the channel then you would need to set the channel priority as described here so that it will give priority to conda-forge.

    Using the version of ncurses from conda-forge instead of the default got rid of the message that was spamming my terminal, because the conda-forge one ships with version information as described here.