resxtop fails to start on RHEL 9.x due to missing libncurses.so.5

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

Symtoms

• Running resxtop on RHEL 9.x
• The following error is returned:
  

  resxtop: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Environment

VMware vSphere ESXi

RHEL 9.x

Cause

This is because libncurses.so.5 is missing from RHEL 9.x.

Resolution

Contact Red Hat to confirm whether libncurses.so.5 is available for use on RHEL 9.x.