How To Install ncurses-base.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install ncurses-base.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. ncurses-base.noarch is Descriptions of common terminals

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ncurses-base.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `ncurses-base.noarch`

Descriptions of common terminals http MIT This package contains descriptions of common terminals. Other terminal descriptions are included in the ncurses-term package.

We can use yum to install ncurses-base.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ncurses-base.noarch.

Install ncurses-base.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install ncurses-base.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ncurses-base.noarch

How To Uninstall ncurses-base.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the ncurses-base.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove ncurses-base.noarch

ncurses-base.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/terminfo
/usr/share/doc/ncurses-base-6.0
/usr/share/doc/ncurses-base-6.0/README
/usr/share/licenses/ncurses-base-6.0
/usr/share/licenses/ncurses-base-6.0/COPYING
/usr/share/tabset
/usr/share/tabset/std
/usr/share/tabset/stdcrt
/usr/share/tabset/vt100
/usr/share/tabset/vt300
/usr/share/terminfo
/usr/share/terminfo/A
/usr/share/terminfo/A/Apple_Terminal
/usr/share/terminfo/E
/usr/share/terminfo/E/Eterm
/usr/share/terminfo/E/Eterm-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/E/Eterm-88color
/usr/share/terminfo/E/Eterm-color
/usr/share/terminfo/a
/usr/share/terminfo/a/ansi
/usr/share/terminfo/a/ansi80x25
/usr/share/terminfo/a/ansis
/usr/share/terminfo/a/aterm
/usr/share/terminfo/b
/usr/share/terminfo/b/bterm
/usr/share/terminfo/c
/usr/share/terminfo/c/cons25
/usr/share/terminfo/c/cygwin
/usr/share/terminfo/d
/usr/share/terminfo/d/dumb
/usr/share/terminfo/e
/usr/share/terminfo/e/eterm
/usr/share/terminfo/e/eterm-color
/usr/share/terminfo/g
/usr/share/terminfo/g/gnome
/usr/share/terminfo/g/gnome-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/h
/usr/share/terminfo/h/hurd
/usr/share/terminfo/j
/usr/share/terminfo/j/jfbterm
/usr/share/terminfo/k
/usr/share/terminfo/k/kon
/usr/share/terminfo/k/kon2
/usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole
/usr/share/terminfo/k/konsole-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/l
/usr/share/terminfo/l/linux
/usr/share/terminfo/m
/usr/share/terminfo/m/mach
/usr/share/terminfo/m/mach-bold
/usr/share/terminfo/m/mach-color
/usr/share/terminfo/m/mach-gnu
/usr/share/terminfo/m/mach-gnu-color
/usr/share/terminfo/m/mlterm
/usr/share/terminfo/m/mrxvt
/usr/share/terminfo/n
/usr/share/terminfo/n/nsterm
/usr/share/terminfo/n/nxterm
/usr/share/terminfo/p
/usr/share/terminfo/p/pcansi
/usr/share/terminfo/p/putty
/usr/share/terminfo/p/putty-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/r
/usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt
/usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-16color
/usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-88color
/usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-basic
/usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-color
/usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-cygwin
/usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-cygwin-native
/usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-unicode
/usr/share/terminfo/r/rxvt-xpm
/usr/share/terminfo/s
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen-16color
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.Eterm
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.gnome
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.konsole
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.konsole-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.linux
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.mlterm
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.mlterm-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.mrxvt
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.putty
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.putty-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.rxvt
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.teraterm
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.vte
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.vte-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.xterm-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.xterm-new
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.xterm-r6
/usr/share/terminfo/s/screen.xterm-xfree86
/usr/share/terminfo/s/st
/usr/share/terminfo/s/st-16color
/usr/share/terminfo/s/st-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/s/stterm
/usr/share/terminfo/s/stterm-16color
/usr/share/terminfo/s/stterm-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/s/sun
/usr/share/terminfo/s/sun1
/usr/share/terminfo/s/sun2
/usr/share/terminfo/t
/usr/share/terminfo/t/teraterm
/usr/share/terminfo/t/teraterm2.3
/usr/share/terminfo/t/tmux
/usr/share/terminfo/t/tmux-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/v
/usr/share/terminfo/v/vs100
/usr/share/terminfo/v/vt100
/usr/share/terminfo/v/vt100-am
/usr/share/terminfo/v/vt100-nav
/usr/share/terminfo/v/vt102
/usr/share/terminfo/v/vt200
/usr/share/terminfo/v/vt220
/usr/share/terminfo/v/vt52
/usr/share/terminfo/v/vte
/usr/share/terminfo/v/vte-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/v/vwmterm
/usr/share/terminfo/w
/usr/share/terminfo/w/wsvt25
/usr/share/terminfo/w/wsvt25m
/usr/share/terminfo/x
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xfce
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-1002
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-1003
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-1005
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-1006
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-16color
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-24
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-256color
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-88color
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-8bit
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-basic
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-bold
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-color
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-hp
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-new
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-nic
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-noapp
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-old
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-pcolor
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-r5
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-r6
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-sco
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-sun
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-utf8
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-vt220
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-vt52
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-x10mouse
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-x11hilite
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-x11mouse
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-xf86-v32
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-xf86-v33
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-xf86-v333
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-xf86-v40
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-xf86-v43
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-xf86-v44
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-xfree86
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterm-xi
/usr/share/terminfo/x/xterms

References

ncurses-base.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ncurses-base.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.