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ncurses-devel


Information about the package, ncurses-devel, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ncurses-devel package is designed for, Development files for the ncurses library.


Package Name:

ncurses-devel

Summary:

Development files for the ncurses library

Description:

The header files and libraries for developing applications that use the ncurses terminal handling library. Install the ncurses-devel package if you want to develop applications which will use ncurses.

Architecture:

i686

Version:

5.7

Release:

4.20090207.el6

Size:

641 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

MIT



Handy Yum Commands for ncurses-devel


Control the ncurses-devel package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install ncurses-devel

This command will install ncurses-devel on the server.

yum remove ncurses-devel

This command will un-install ncurses-devel on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ncurses-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove ncurses-devel

This command will un-install ncurses-devel on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ncurses-devel when using the -y flag.

yum update ncurses-devel

This command will update ncurses-devel to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ncurses-devel, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update ncurses-devel

This command will update ncurses-devel to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove ncurses-devel when using the -y flag.

yum info ncurses-devel

This command will show you core information about the ncurses-devel package.

yum deplist ncurses-devel

This command will show you the dependencies for ncurses-devel. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update ncurses-devel

This command will check if there is an update waiting on ncurses-devel. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.