How To Install Ncurses Library In Linux
GNU Ncurses is a programming library that allows the users to write text-based user interfaces(TUI). Many text-based games are created using this library. One popular example is PacVim, a CLI game to learn VIM commands. In this brief guide, I will be explaining how to install Ncurses library in Unix-like operating systems.
Install Ncurses Library In Linux
Ncurses is available in the default repositories of most Linux distributions. For instance, you can install it on Arch-based systems using the following command:
$ sudo pacman -S ncurses
On RHEL, CentOS:
$ sudo yum install ncurses-devel
On Fedora 22 and newer versions:
$ sudo dnf install ncurses-devel
On Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint:
$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev
The GNU ncureses might be bit old in the default repositories. If you want a most recent stable version, you can compile and install from the source as shown below.
Download the latest ncurses version from here. As of writing this guide, the latest version was 6.1.
$ wget https://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-6.1.tar.gz
Extract the tar file:
$ tar xzf ncurses-6.1.tar.gz
This will create a folder named ncurses-6.1 in the current directory. Cd to the directory:
$ cd ncurses-6.1
$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/ncurses
Finally, compile and install using the following commands:
$ sudo make install
Verify the installation using command:
$ ls -la /opt/ncurses
That’s it. Ncurses have been installed on the Linux distribution. Go ahead and create your nice looking TUIs using Ncurses.
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