How to install the ncursesw development libraries

linux ncurses
visheshjoshi visheshjoshi picture visheshjoshi visheshjoshi · Oct 3, 2014 · Viewed 23.3k times · Source

I'm trying to follow the instructions in

https://github.com/flok99/multitail/blob/master/INSTALL

It says to install the "ncursesw development libraries"

How do I do that?

Answer

o11c picture o11c · Oct 3, 2014

It depends on your distro:

On Debian/Ubuntu, sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev

On RedHat/Fedora/CentOS, sudo yum install ncurses-devel

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