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How to install libncurses.so.5 in Ubuntu 20.04?
You have to update your package lists, as this package is still available from universe pocket.
Install them with:
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get install libncurses5 libncurses5:i386
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How do I install ncurses header files?
Tested on Ubuntu 17.04
You should install libncurses5-dev and libncursesw5-dev:
apt install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev
References: https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/linux-install-ncurses-library-...
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Unable to find ncurses library
Wine may need 32-bit library.
You can install it with
sudo apt-get install libncurses5:i386 libncurses6:i386
and then retry.
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Wireless Network Manager command line ncurses GUI
Try nmtui. It's provided by Network Manager installation along with nmcli, and seems to have been available for quite a few years: https://github.com/heftig/NetworkManager/tree/master/tui
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Unable to locate package ncurses
To install ncurses, try sudo apt install ncurses
For the -dev package, try sudo apt install libncurses-dev
There are no -dev packages for libncurses6 nor for libncursesw6.
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How to install libncurses.so.5 in Ubuntu 20.04?
So adding the universe pocket didn't completely solve my problem, I found out that I also had to set up the correct foreign architecture.
To set this up, I first checked main architecture, which was ...
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Trouble installing ncurses
I found this website https://www.osetc.com/en/how-to-install-ncurse-library-in-ubuntu-debian-centos-fedora-linux.html with the following comment, which worked:
$ sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev ...
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Can't use ncurses libraries
Install the libraries, it should be enough to bypass the error compiler giving you.
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
If the command didn't do the trick, there could be another problem coming ...
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How to get rid of purple background color in newt apps?
Took a while to figure out, turns out symlink for newt apps color palette has been changed:
http://cosmicb.no/2011/10/05/getting-rid-of-ubuntu-violet-colors/
$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/newt-palette
...
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Is there a file manager that can serially number files and subfolders in the currently viewed directory?
Ranger can do that. Ranger is a VIM-inspired file manager for the console available in the universe repository of all currently supported versions of Ubuntu. The GitHub page is here.
This answer is ...
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Unable to find ncurses library
Run these commands Below:
Wine may need a 32 bit library You can install it with :
sudo apt-get install libncurses6:i386
and then try :
sudo apt-get install libncurses5:i386
That should work..
...
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How to make `ncdu` show a quick summary of disk usage and exit?
With ncdu, it is not possible. It uses ncurses library to display the results with interactive features and (unlike e.g. top with -b option) it has no direct option to print what it displays.
However, ...
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How to make `ncdu` show a quick summary of disk usage and exit?
the ncdu webpage lists similar projects at the bottom, one of being tdu "top disk usage" that does exit non-interactively with a text summary (including biggest nested files). Another gdu ...
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ncurses installed... but won't compile code
Instead of using gcc -lncurses main.c
you need to use
gcc main.c -lncurses
the -lncurses directive comes after your object code on the gcc command line
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Can I use both systemd-networkd and NetworkManager, or is there an GUI/ncurses alternative to Network Manager?
Yes, it is possible to use NetworkManager for one set of interfaces and networkd for another. As documented at https://netplan.io/reference/:
renderer (scalar)
Use the given networking backend for ...
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Can I use both systemd-networkd and NetworkManager, or is there an GUI/ncurses alternative to Network Manager?
I came across Intel's connman package, which appears to work just fine, and there is a Qt interface package for it called cmst.
I didn't think it would work with systemd-networkd, but it let me join ...
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Are there some Text User Interface programs for ffmpeg and other?
That's AKA the 'curses' interface which requires adding the ncurses library with
sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev libncursesw5-dev
Each curses interface app has its own package. One example is ...
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lib not found (ncurses)
With the help of @steeldriver, I use LDLIBS in makefile and it works now:
LDLIBS=-lncurses
Obviously ubuntu and mac are different on processing makefile.
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vim binary with all libraries statically linked
I had the similar problem when trying some things with pkgsrc on vim port.
Try to open the config.log file. In my case, the configure script told me this :
| int
| main ()
| {
| char s[10000]; int ...
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Problem Ubuntu putting out characters in both UTF-8 and ISO-8859-1
Probably you need setup few environment variables to customize programs to your language and country. Here you are an article about Locales. In short:
Run locale to check current values, they must ...
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How to repair apt / auto upgrades?
Just open a terminal and execute : sudo rm /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades.ucf-dist
The command removes the unneeded file and the informational message will not appear any longer when you are ...
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