How To Install notcurses on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install notcurses on CentOS 8.
What is notcurses
Notcurses facilitates the creation of modern TUI programs, making full use of Unicode and 24-bit TrueColor. It presents an API similar to that of Curses, and rides atop Terminfo. This package includes C and C++ shared libraries.
We can use yum or dnf to install notcurses on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install notcurses.
Install notcurses 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 notcurses using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install notcurses
Install notcurses 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 notcurses using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install notcurses
How To Uninstall notcurses on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the notcurses package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove notcurses
notcurses Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/c20d2493673522329a0ce15a1505dbcf2ce6dc
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/e3dd6493a3b5ef5c95fc415dbac4b498a47b96
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/f2b039fd2e55271b62618870dde8fe5f8f8c79
/usr/lib64/libnotcurses++.so.2
/usr/lib64/libnotcurses++.so.2.3.9
/usr/lib64/libnotcurses-core.so.2
/usr/lib64/libnotcurses-core.so.2.3.9
/usr/lib64/libnotcurses.so.2
/usr/lib64/libnotcurses.so.2.3.9
/usr/share/doc/notcurses
/usr/share/doc/notcurses/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/notcurses/CURSES.md
/usr/share/doc/notcurses/HACKING.md
/usr/share/doc/notcurses/HISTORY.md
/usr/share/doc/notcurses/INSTALL.md
/usr/share/doc/notcurses/NEWS.md
/usr/share/doc/notcurses/OTHERS.md
/usr/share/doc/notcurses/README.md
/usr/share/doc/notcurses/TERMINALS.md
/usr/share/doc/notcurses/USAGE.md
/usr/share/licenses/notcurses
/usr/share/licenses/notcurses/COPYRIGHT
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install notcurses on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.