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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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