How to Install lib64ncurses5-dev software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

How to Install lib64ncurses5-dev software package in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)

lib64ncurses5-dev software package provides developers libraries for ncurses (64-bit), you can install in your Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) by running the commands given below on the terminal,

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install lib64ncurses5-dev 

lib64ncurses5-dev is installed in your system.

Make ensure the lib64ncurses5-dev package were installed using the commands given below,

$ sudo dpkg-query -l | grep lib64ncurses5-dev *

You will get with lib64ncurses5-dev package name, version, architecture and description in a table

lib64ncurses5-dev package basic information:

Distro Ubuntu 14 04 lts trusty tahr
Section Library development
Package lib64ncurses5-dev
Version 5.9+20140118-1ubuntu1
Description developers libraries for ncurses (64-bit)
Sub Section libdevel


See Also, How to uninstall or remove lib64ncurses5-dev software package from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr)?