Red Hat Enterprise Linux / CentOS / Rocky Linux platform notes

Important: The fglrun component of Genero BDL package requires version 5 of the wide-char Curses shared library to be installed on the system.

Installing the Curses library on RedHat Enterprise Linux 7 / CentOS 7

On Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 7 and Centos 7, the Curses library must be installed as follows. This will install the version 5 of the Curses library:
# yum install ncurses-libs

On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Centos 7, the ncurses-libs RPM package includes the libncursesw.so.5 library for UTF-8 support in text mode.

Installing the Curses library on RedHat Enterprise Linux 8

In order to install the version 5 of the Curses library on Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8, execute the following command:
# dnf install ncurses-compat-libs

On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, the ncurses-compat-libs RPM package includes the libncursesw.so.5 library for UTF-8 support in text mode.

Installing the Curses library on Rocky Linux® 8 and 9

In order to install the version 5 of the Curses library on Rocky Linux® 8 and 9, execute the following commands:
# dnf config-manager --set-enabled devel
# dnf install ncurses-compat-libs

On Rocky Linux 8 and 9, the ncurses-compat-libs RPM package includes the libncursesw.so.5 library for UTF-8 support in text mode.