There is a new pull request by gt7-void against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/gt7-void/void-packages ncurses https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/23660 ncurses-libs: provide libncurses.so.{5,6} For compatibility, provide symlinks /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5 -> /usr/lib/libncurses.so.6.2 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.6 -> /usr/lib/libncurses.so.6.2 A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/23660.patch is attached