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.
