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I want to use certain operations (like clearing the screen etc.) in C programs in Linux platform and I am informed that it can be done including curses.h header-file. But this doesn't seem to be available along with gcc package.

Please, tell me how can I install it?

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  • The answers are going to be different, depending on the Linux distribution. You haven't said which one you're using.
    – Daniel Kamil Kozar
    Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 15:48
  • @Daniel Kamil Kozar...ubuntu 12.10
    – Snehasish Karmakar
    Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 15:55

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Try this:

sudo apt-get install libncurses5-dev
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  • How can I get the manual for this header-file(in terminal)? @Linuxios
    – Snehasish Karmakar
    Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 16:04
  • "man curses" is not working.It is showing "No manual entry for curses".
    – Snehasish Karmakar
    Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 16:19
  • Can you tell me the function that clears the screen of terminal?
    – Snehasish Karmakar
    Commented Aug 16, 2013 at 16:27
  • Still working for Ubuntu 20.04LTS
    – Steve Lau
    Commented Mar 12, 2022 at 6:25
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On RHEL / Fedora / CentOS Linux, type the following yum command at a shell prompt as root user:

yum install ncurses-devel ncurses
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On Debian/Ubuntu/Deepin,use the following command:

sudo apt install libncurses5-dev

man document:

sudo apt install ncurses-doc

then: man ncurses

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