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Re: ncurses?



On Tue, Jul 02, 2019 at 05:45:32PM -0600, ghe wrote:
> When I run one of these programs and 'ps aux' I see lynx or alsamixer or
> aptitude, but no ncurses. I'm not sure what, if anything, that means.
> But I expected to see ncurses.

ncurses is a C library.  A C program like lynx may be linked against
this library, and you would (usually) see that with ldd:

wooledg:~$ ldd /usr/bin/lynx | grep ncurses
        libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f85b0929000)

A library isn't a separate process, and you won't see it listed in the
output of ps or top.


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