Won't run on Ubuntu 18.10

Using Swift
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I'm trying to install the swift-5.0.1-RELEASE-ubuntu18.04.tar.gz tarball on an Ubuntu 18.10 system but when I run the swift binary I get this error

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

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I too had the same issue when I used the tarball swift-5.0.1-RELEASE-ubuntu16.04.tar.gz under Ubuntu 16.04.

Though the PATH had been set...it could not open the available lib files.

And when I installed through snap, the lib files lookup are all fine but other errors are coming. Refer

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Sounds like you’re missing libtinfo5 package.

Try

sudo apt install libtinfo5
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Thank you, that solved my issue!