Common issues found when installing or running Clava

May 7, 2025 ยท View on GitHub

Error 'Invalid or corrupt jarfile'

Check if you have at least Java 17 installed, this is the minimum version.

Error 'missing libtinfo.so.5'

On Fedora >28 systems this can be solved by installing the package ncurses-compat-libs

Error 'cannot find -lz'

Install libz package (e.g., in Ubuntu sudo apt-get install libz-dev)

Contents

  1. 1Error 'Invalid or corrupt jarfile'
  2. 2Error 'missing libtinfo.so.5'
  3. 3Error 'cannot find -lz'