IDA doesn't work inside screen

Question

I am trying to run idal64 (IDA pro) inside a screen session, but I receive this error:

TVision error: Can not load libcurses.so
    Without libcurses can work only with xterm/linux
Aborted (core dumped)

I installed 'libncurses5-dev', 'libncursesw5-dev', 'lib32ncurses5-dev' and 'libx32ncurses5-dev', but nothing changed.

This library seems to be correctly installed:

#find / -name libcurses.so
/usr/lib32/libcurses.so
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libcurses.so
/lib/libcurses.so
/lib64/libcurses.so
/lib32/libcurses.so

My machine info:

Linux 3.13.0-49-generic #83-Ubuntu SMP Fri Apr 10 20:11:33 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

The weird thing is that IDA correctly works outside screen. Any idea?

Maybe it's an 32bit / 64bit issue. Have you tried installing the `:i386` versions of the libraries? For example `libncurses5-dev:i386`? — langlauf.io, May 17 '15 at 10:28
What exactly do you mean by "outside screen"? What version of IDA are you using? What version of Ubuntu are you using? — langlauf.io, May 17 '15 at 10:30
Odd. Confirmed this remains an issue with IDA 7.5 using `tmux`. — sherrellbc, Sep 29 '20 at 16:08

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 20 '15 at 14:49

7

I ran into the same issue running idal in tmux, and determined that

env TERM=xterm /path/to/idal

works around this issue for 32-bit idal. Haven't tried idal64 but I expect this will work for you as well.

answered Nov 20 '15 at 14:49

lorimer

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