libncurses and Ubuntu 24.04

[JFSF]

Hi Jim.

For those that use Ubuntu 24.04, like me, there is two options:

1. Use the actual version from Ubuntu 22.04;
2. Change to the newer version of libncurses;

For the first option:

• sudo apt update
• cd ~/Downloads
• wget http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/ncurses/libtinfo5_6.3-2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/ncurses/libncurses5_6.3-2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb
• sudo apt install ./libtinfo5_6.3-2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb ./libncurses5_6.3-2ubuntu0.1_amd64.deb

For those choosing the second:

• sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev

[jimmckeeth]

It is working for me on 24.04 LTS as is....

Are you seeing a failure?

[JFSF]

After reinstalled a clean distribution it all worked fine.