This article covers some basic steps to resolve a few common issues with the MileMaker application.

Failed to find libncurses.so.5 or libncurses.so.6

For the latest build of MileMaker Linux (2025 copyright date)
* This build no longer requires the symbolic link to be created

1. sudo yum install ncurses-libs.i686

For the MileMaker 2009 Build

1. Install glibc/libcc (The package name will vary based on distribution release)
   Red Hat 9:
   sudo yum install libcc*i686
   
   Red Hat 8.0:
   sudo yum install glibc.i686
   
   
2. Install ncurses library
   sudo yum install ncurses-libs.i686
   
   
3. Create symlink for the ncurses lib
   ln -s /usr/lib/libncurses.so.6 /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5