Ncurses for Debian ------------------ The ncurses package is split into five parts: libncurses The ncurses shared libraries libncurses-dev Development environment libncurses-dbg Debugging libraries ncurses-bin Various small applications (clear, reset, tic, etc.) ncurses-term All the rest of the terminal entries All debian systems should have libncurses and ncurses-bin installed. The -dev and -dbg packages are only useful for developers wishing to compile programs which use ncurses. ncurses-term is the full contents of the terminfo database, and includes many strange and obsolete terminals.