ncurses-with-gpm 6.2.20210619

Terminal emulation (termcap, terminfo) library

GNU Ncurses is a library which provides capabilities to write text to a terminal in a terminal-independent manner. It supports pads and color as well as multiple highlights and forms characters. It is typically used to implement user interfaces for command-line applications. The accompanying ncursesw library provides wide character support.

Outputs: doc, out
Website: https://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/
Licenses: X11
Package source: gnu/packages/ncurses.scm
Builds: See build status
Issues: See known issues

Installation

Install ncurses-with-gpm 6.2.20210619 as follows:

guix install ncurses-with-gpm@6.2.20210619

Or install the latest version:

guix install ncurses-with-gpm

The ncurses-with-gpm package provides more outputs besides the default (out). You can install them by appending :output-name to the package specification. For example:

guix install ncurses-with-gpm:doc

You can also install packages in augmented, pure or containerized environments for development or simply to try them out without polluting your user profile. See the guix shell documentation for more information.