Unable to launch VMRC installer on Fedora 28

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• User interface initialization failed with error "Exiting. Check the log for details. ImportError: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory".

Cause

This issue is caused because Fedora 28 ships with a new library libncursesw.so.6.0 which currently is not built into VMRC. We will have to install ncurses-compat-libs on Fedora 28 to get the libncursesw.so.5 library.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, open the terminal and run the command,

• sudo dnf install ncurses-compat-libs