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Created January 27, 2020 22:25
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HOW TO INSTALL ncurses on MacOSX
$ curl -O ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/ncurses/ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
$ tar -xzvf ncurses-5.9.tar.gz
$ cd ./ncurses-5.9
$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local \
--without-cxx --without-cxx-binding --without-ada --without-progs --without-curses-h \
--with-shared --without-debug \
--enable-widec --enable-const --enable-ext-colors --enable-sigwinch --enable-wgetch-events \
&& make
$ sudo make install
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