Red Hat Enterprise Linux platform notes

Installing the Curses library on RedHat Enterprise Linux

On Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 7, the Curses library must be installed as follows:
# yum install ncurses-libs
Note: On Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the ncurses-libs RPM package includes the libncursesw.so.5 library for UTF-8 support in text mode.

See also TERMINFO terminal capabilities.