How to fix "fatal error: ncursesw/ncurses.h: No such file or directory"

Last updated on June 14, 2020 by Dan Nanni

fatal error: ncursesw/ncurses.h: No such file or directory
#include <ncursesw/ncurses.h>

ncursesw/ncurses.h is a development header file for ncursesw, which is source-compatible with ncurses library, but supports wide characters or Unicode (UTF8). The compile error implies that the development header files and libraries for ncursesw are not installed on your Linux system.

To fix this error, you need to install the development library for ncursesw as follows.

Install ncursesw on Debian, Ubuntu or Linux Mint

$ sudo apt-get install libncursesw5-dev

Install ncursesw on CentOS, Fedora or RHEL

$ sudo yum install ncurses-devel

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