SUSE Linux Enterprise platform notes

Installing NCurses on SUSE Linux Enterprise

Important:
Depending on the OS compatibility code of the Genero BDL package for Linux, fglrun requires the version 5 or version 6 of the wide-char NCurses shared library to be installed on the system.
  • Package with OS code l64xl217 needs NCurses version 5
  • Package with OS code l64xl228 needs NCurses version 6

After installing the Genero package, execute the ldd -r command on $FGLDIR/bin/fglrun, to identify what version of the NCurses shared library is required, and install the corresponding NCurses package if needed.

Installing NCurses V6 on SUSE Linux Enterprise

On SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12 and 15+, the NCurses library version 6 must be installed as follows:
# zypper install libncurses6

The libncurses6 package includes the libncursesw.so.6 library for UTF-8 support in text mode.

Installing NCurses V5 on SUSE Linux Enterprise

On SUSE® Linux Enterprise 12 and 15+, the NCurses library version 5 must be installed as follows:
# SUSEConnect -p sle-module-legacy/15/x86_64
# zypper install libncurses5

The libncurses5 package includes the libncursesw.so.5 library for UTF-8 support in text mode.