How can I install ncdu on Red Hat/CentOS?

If you are getting below error while installing ncdu using yum command ie, yum install ncdu

No package ncdu available

You will need to download the latest version o ncdu package from http://dev.yorhel.nl/ncdu with wget on the server

wget https://dev.yorhel.nl/download/ncdu-1.15.1.tar.gz

then extract the tarball, with:

tar -xzvf ncdu-1.15.1.tar.gz

this will create a new folder named ncdu-1.15.1. Enter that folder and execute:

./configure --prefix=/usr

If it’s unable to find ncurses.h and the configuration fails,

checking for ncurses.h... no
configure: error: required header file not found

you’ll have to install curses library headers

yum install ncurses-devel ncurses

Once you install the library, you will need to execute the configure step again.

Then run,

make

and

sudo make install

That’s it 🙂

You can optionally remove the ncdu-1.15.1.tar.gz file and the directory where the source files were extracted as you don’t need them anymore.

FYI :- To Install ncdu on Debian/Ubuntu linux, you can use below command

sudo apt-get install ncdu -y

or

sudo aptitude ncdu -y