How To Install ncurses on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ncurses on Fedora 34.
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 Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ncurses.
Install ncurses on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 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 Fedora 34
To uninstall only the ncurses package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ncurses
ncurses Package Contents on Fedora 34
/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/07
/usr/lib/.build-id/07/d8bbe6bc943ddc0d363392d3efa5fc98f3e672
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/68db5620f1772b71bdb082c137b9d9483d1c7e
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/fa7ce7439b13c71e8bd19b8f74d721075aa77d
/usr/lib/.build-id/50
/usr/lib/.build-id/50/840fe85a9036127741a61b74e0f136cdc07031
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/6feb3cf4c230ddbdc91e67a823dae451dec0dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/4f3b36eef838670b9b6cc3a5c933d32568c7a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/554248f209fd69d2b602ae748684ad69c50e05
/usr/share/doc/ncurses
/usr/share/doc/ncurses/ANNOUNCE
/usr/share/doc/ncurses/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/ncurses/NEWS.xz
/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 Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.