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Install this package:

emerge -a sys-libs/ncurses-compat

If the package is masked, you can unmask it using the autounmask tool or standard emerge options:

autounmask sys-libs/ncurses-compat

Or alternatively:

emerge --autounmask-write -a sys-libs/ncurses-compat

Package Information

Description:

Console display library (ABI version 5)

Homepage:

https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/

License:

MIT

Versions

Metadata

Maintainers

• Gentoo Base System (base-system@gentoo.org) - Type: project

Upstream

• Changelog: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html
• Remote IDs:
  • cpe: cpe:/a:gnu:ncurses
  • github: ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots

<pkgmetadata>
	<maintainer type="project">
		<email>base-system@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Gentoo Base System</name>
	</maintainer>
	<use>
		<flag name="stack-realign">
			Realign the stack in the 32-bit build for compatibility with older binaries at some performance cost.
			Avoids crashes in older 32-bit binaries. Only affects x86/32-bit multilib builds on amd64.
		</flag>
		<flag name="tinfo">
			Build curses library (libncurses) sep from the low-level terminfo
			library (libtinfo) -- usually needed only for binary packages -- but
			it is binary compatible in either mode
		</flag>
	</use>
	<upstream>
		<changelog>https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/NEWS.html</changelog>
		<remote-id type="cpe">cpe:/a:gnu:ncurses</remote-id>
		<remote-id type="github">ThomasDickey/ncurses-snapshots</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

Lint Warnings

• [Warning] USE flag 'gpm' in ebuild 6.4_p20240414 is not documented in metadata.xml
• [Warning] USE flag 'unicode' in ebuild 6.4_p20240414 is not documented in metadata.xml
• [Error] Missing md5-cache for ebuild ncurses-compat-6.4_p20240414

USE Flags

Manage flags for this package: euse -i <flag> -p sys-libs/ncurses-compat | euse -E <flag> -p sys-libs/ncurses-compat | euse -D <flag> -p sys-libs/ncurses-compat

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