Ghostty issue with ncurses

General system Newbie
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So, I had an issue when updating my system today. It likely stems from the ncurses going from 6.5-4 → 6.6-1 here.

I use ghostty with KDE plasma 6.

I saw on GitHub on this discussion but didn’t understand the solution here:

From what I understand, you have to do something like
sudo ln -s /usr/share/terminfo/g/ghostty /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-ghostty

but i am not sure what the implication and issue that would cause.

If you have the same issue and found the solution, please let me know.

Thanks in advance.

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I had the same issue. I finally installed with

yay –-overwrite’*’ …

The link you created with

ln -s /usr/share/terminfo/g/ghostty /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-ghostty

is wrong in my opinion

/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-ghostty belongs to the ghostty-terminfo package. You should not touch that.

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This morning a new package ghostty-terminfo 1.2.3-3 was deployed which eliminates the conflict by removing /usr/share/terminfo/g/ghostty

# pacman -Ql ghostty-terminfo

ghostty-terminfo /usr/
ghostty-terminfo /usr/share/
ghostty-terminfo /usr/share/terminfo/
ghostty-terminfo /usr/share/terminfo/x/
ghostty-terminfo /usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-ghostty
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Thank you very much for your response. I will try it out. Sorry for the late response btw