RHEL / CentOS / Rocky Linux / Oracle Linux platform notes

Installing NCurses on RHEL, CentOS, Rocky Linux and Oracle Linux

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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux, CentOS, Rocky Linux or Oracle Linux

On Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 8+, CentOS® 7+, Rocky Linux® 8+ or Oracle Linux® 8+, the NCurses library version 6 must be installed as follows:
# dnf install ncurses-libs

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

Installing NCurses V5 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 / CentOS 7

On Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® 7 and CentOS® 7, the NCurses library version 5 must be installed as follows:
# yum install ncurses-libs

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