Clarified installation doco

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#### Generic Instructions #### Generic Instructions
First, make sure you have the ncurses library installed: First, make sure you have the ncurses header installed:
``` ```
ls /usr/include | grep ncurses.h ls /usr/include | grep ncurses.h
``` ```
If the ncurses.h header file is not present, you may need to install the library. For example, on Also make sure you have the ncurses library for wide character support:
Ubuntu you would type: ```
ls /usr/lib | grep libncursesw.so
```
If either file is missing, you may need to install the ncurses and/or ncursesw library. All linux
distributions should have these available from their package manager. Usually they are both included
in a single package named something along the lines of 'ncurses'. However, on some distrubutions, such
as Ubuntu, you need to install them as separate packages. For example:
``` ```
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5-dev lib32ncursesw5-dev sudo apt-get install lib32ncurses5-dev lib32ncursesw5-dev
``` ```
For other flavors of Linux/Unix, use your package manager to search for the "ncurses" package. Install Use your package manager to search for the "ncurses" package. Install
it. If you see two different packages for "ncurses" and "ncursesw", install them both (as shown above it. If you see two different packages for "ncurses" and "ncursesw", install them both (as shown above
in the Ubuntu example). in the Ubuntu example).