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Student coder here. I am trying to complete a project that asks me to install a package called "libncurses5-dev" and run a program through Ubuntu. It worked the first day, thankfully. However, on the second day I wanted to set my default directory to my homework folder so that I could skip the cd /mnt/c/Users/... step and just go straight to where my programs are. I tried to follow a tutorial online but I believe I made a typo or something because afterwards my Ubuntu kept crashing! I could not open it for long enough to fix it, the error was something along the lines of "directory does not exist." So, I uninstalled and reinstalled Ubuntu. I redid the process of installing all the packages I needed for coding on WSL. However, when I need to run my program, it keeps saying that I am missing a package. When I try to install that package, it says the package does not exist. Please see the attached files, which show what the project is supposed to look like and what it looks like now. I looked at image 2 again and it shows that I made a typo in the library name, but after trying it again I get the same error anyways. Thanks in advance for the help.

What it is supposed to look like What it looks like now

Fatin Iftekhar
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    Please don't provide pictures of text, copy & paste the text into your question. A "Unable to locate package" message should tell you it didn't work, and as a student I'd expect you to realize binaries used by run-times aren't the same as -dev libraries used for compiles.. (unless that's part of what you're supposed to be learning in this step). You also install packages (which contain shared objects) not shared objects themselves... – guiverc May 08 '20 at 04:57
  • The libncurses.so.5 runtime library is provided by package libncurses5 - try reinstalling it – steeldriver May 08 '20 at 13:25
  • @steeldriver Hello, your solution worked. Quick and simple, thanks a lot. Is there some sort of documentation that I can use to tell me the different package names and their contents for future reference? – Fatin Iftekhar May 08 '20 at 16:34
  • @FatinIftekhar please see How do I find the package that provides a file? – steeldriver May 08 '20 at 16:38
  • @Pilot6 yes it does, thank you – Fatin Iftekhar May 08 '20 at 18:12

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