The Ncurses package contains libraries for the terminal-independent handling of character screens. &buildtime; &ncurses-time; &diskspace; &ncurses-compsize; &aa-ncurses-down; &aa-ncurses-dep;   Prepare Ncurses for compilation: ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared --without-debug Compile the package: make Install the package: make install Give the Ncurses libraries execute permissions: chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&ncurses-version; And fix a library that shouldn't be executable: chmod 644 /usr/lib/libncurses++.a Move the libraries to the /lib directory, where they're expected to reside: mv /usr/lib/libncurses.so.5* /lib Now the libraries have been moved, a few symlinks are pointing to non-existent files. Recreate those symlinks: ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so ln -sf libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so &aa-ncurses-shortdesc; &aa-ncurses-desc;