From cdf03c3d232f3e2e548376b2b52071a1d0af33e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brian Barto Date: Thu, 19 May 2016 09:55:40 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Clarified installation doco modified: INSTALL.md --- INSTALL.md | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index eb153d2..39f26d3 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -64,17 +64,23 @@ brew install no-more-secrets #### Generic Instructions -First, make sure you have the ncurses library installed: +First, make sure you have the ncurses header installed: ``` ls /usr/include | grep ncurses.h ``` -If the ncurses.h header file is not present, you may need to install the library. For example, on -Ubuntu you would type: +Also make sure you have the ncurses library for wide character support: +``` +ls /usr/lib | grep libncursesw.so +``` +If either file is missing, you may need to install the ncurses and/or ncursesw library. All linux +distributions should have these available from their package manager. Usually they are both included +in a single package named something along the lines of 'ncurses'. However, on some distrubutions, such +as Ubuntu, you need to install them as separate packages. For example: ``` sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5-dev lib32ncursesw5-dev ``` -For other flavors of Linux/Unix, use your package manager to search for the "ncurses" package. Install +Use your package manager to search for the "ncurses" package. Install it. If you see two different packages for "ncurses" and "ncursesw", install them both (as shown above in the Ubuntu example).