How To Install ncurses on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ncurses on CentOS 8.
What is ncurses
The curses library routines are a terminal-independent method of updating character screens with reasonable optimization. The ncurses (new curses) library is a freely distributable replacement for the discontinued 4.4 BSD classic curses library. This package contains support utilities, including a terminfo compiler tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo.
We can use yum or dnf to install ncurses on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ncurses.
Install ncurses on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ncurses using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ncurses
Install ncurses on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install ncurses using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ncurses
How To Uninstall ncurses on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the ncurses package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ncurses
ncurses Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/captoinfo
/usr/bin/clear
/usr/bin/infocmp
/usr/bin/infotocap
/usr/bin/reset
/usr/bin/tabs
/usr/bin/tic
/usr/bin/toe
/usr/bin/tput
/usr/bin/tset
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/16
/usr/lib/.build-id/16/803878e62dc202f9a2f7245bc06965599b9052
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c
/usr/lib/.build-id/2c/2482a02520044c636fbaff63736d7efc27220d
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/3f00b1003c358710eda68720f39660035fbd62
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/027be1fce4c87e32c6b992f66137bb7be2815c
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/7e/d37fa73b2bb908f5bf5c9f603afbe0724085e9
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/e3bd83e2f6c4b6915042bf58602fe9b7998b86
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/5824da166e53fa9c17ceb9f7cac7b66d0f2505
/usr/share/doc/ncurses
/usr/share/doc/ncurses/ANNOUNCE
/usr/share/doc/ncurses/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ncurses/NEWS.bz2
/usr/share/doc/ncurses/README
/usr/share/doc/ncurses/TO-DO
/usr/share/man/man1/captoinfo.1m.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/clear.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/infocmp.1m.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/infotocap.1m.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/reset.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tabs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tic.1m.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/toe.1m.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tput.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tset.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/scr_dump.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/term.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/terminfo.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/user_caps.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/term.7.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ncurses on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.