patch -Np1 -i ../ncurses-&ncurses-version;-etip-2.patch patch -Np1 -i ../ncurses-&ncurses-version;-vsscanf.patch Prepare Ncurses to be compiled: ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-shared \     --without-debug Continue with compiling the package: make Install the package: make install Give the ncurses libraries executable permission: chmod 755 /usr/lib/*.&ncurses-version; And fix up a library that shouldn't be executable at all: 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 Since the libraries have been moved to /lib, a few symlinks are currently pointing towards non-existing files. Recreate those symlinks: ln -sf ../../lib/libncurses.so.5 /usr/lib/libncurses.so ln -sf libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so