Some time ago ncurses was split in two libraries, libtinfo.so. and libncurses.so. some software will only try to use libtinfo.so. without trying libncurses.so.
Symlinking libtinfo.so. to libncurses.so. should solve the problem:
cd /lib
sudo ln -s libncurses.so.5.7 libtinfo.so.5