Ncurses

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Ncurses

https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
Displays and updates text on text-only terminals.

The ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses in System V Release 4.0 and more. It uses terminfo format, supports pads and color and multiple highlights and forms charcters and function-key mapping, and has all the other SYSV-curses enhancements over BSD curses. It should port easily to any ANSI/POSIX-conforming UNIX-like system. On systems supporting libiconv, the library can be built to support wide- and multibyte-character applications, e.g., UTF-8. The distribution includes the library and support utilities, including a terminfo compiler tic, a decompiler infocmp, clear, tput, tset, and a termcap conversion tool captoinfo.

This is a GNU package:ncurses

Download

https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-6.5.tar.gz

version 6.5 (stable)
released on 27 April 2024

OpenPGP signature URL: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-6.5.tar.gz.sig

User level

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VCS Checkout

git clone git://github.com/ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots.git

Categories

• Interface:command-line
• Interface:library
• Programming-language:C
• Runs-on:GNU/Linux
• Runs-on:BSD
• Runs-on:OS X
• Use:library

Licensing

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License

X11

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Genium

Verified on

16 February 2020

Leaders and contributors

Contact(s)	Role
Thomas Dickey	Maintainer

Resources and communication

Audience	Resource type	URI
Programmer	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-ncurses/
End-user	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-ncurses/
FTP	Download	ftp://ftp.invisible-island.net/ncurses/
	Mailing List	https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-system-discuss/
Debian	Developer	https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/ncurses
FTP	Download	https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/ncurses/
Savannah	Developer	https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/ncurses/
Savannah	General	https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/ncurses/
Programmer	Homepage	https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
Wikidata	General	https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310974

Software prerequisites

Kind	Description
Weak prerequisite	C++ compiler
Required to build	awk
Required to build	sed
Required to build	make
Weak prerequisite	Ada95 compiler

This entry (in part or in whole) was last reviewed on 28 April 2024.

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