How to Install and Uninstall libncurses-dev Package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Last updated: January 23,2025

1. Install "libncurses-dev" package

Please follow the guidelines below to install libncurses-dev on Debian 11 (Bullseye)


    
        
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "libncurses-dev" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall libncurses-dev on Debian 11 (Bullseye):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the libncurses-dev package on Debian 11 (Bullseye)

Package: libncurses-dev
Source: ncurses
Version: 6.2+20201114-2
Installed-Size: 2351
Maintainer: Craig Small
Architecture: amd64
Replaces: libncurses5-dev (<< 6.1+20180210), libncursesw5-dev (<< 6.1+20180210), libtinfo-dev (<< 6.1+20180210), ncurses-bin (<< 6.0+20151017), ncurses-dev
Provides: libncurses5-dev (= 6.2+20201114-2), libncursesw5-dev (= 6.2+20201114-2), libtinfo-dev (= 6.2+20201114-2), ncurses-dev
Depends: libtinfo6 (= 6.2+20201114-2), libncurses6 (= 6.2+20201114-2), libncursesw6 (= 6.2+20201114-2), libc6-dev | libc-dev, ncurses-bin (>= 6.0+20151017)
Suggests: ncurses-doc
Conflicts: ncurses-dev
Breaks: libncurses5-dev (<< 6.1+20180210), libncursesw5-dev (<< 6.1+20180210), libtinfo-dev (<< 6.1+20180210)
Description: developer's libraries for ncurses
Description-md5: 38da502b304ea3ed5ff1e12d072d14a8
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://invisible-island.net/ncurses/
Tag: devel::library, role::devel-lib
Section: libdevel
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/n/ncurses/libncurses-dev_6.2+20201114-2_amd64.deb
Size: 343840
MD5sum: 1138c8675c780a3d2e394d393b0e1e0d
SHA256: b1fcd019be20743068a2ec622e9a7bedc7e2c4d1a78bde4594df7d4119c99c8e