This is an (as of yet experimental) plugin for linuxdeploy. Its job is to bundle additional resources for applications that use ncurses.
# get linuxdeploy and linuxdeploy-plugin-ncurses > wget -c "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy-plugin-ncurses/master/linuxdeploy-plugin-ncurses.sh" > wget -c "https://github.com/linuxdeploy/linuxdeploy/releases/download/continuous/linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage" # first option: install your app into your AppDir via `make install` etc. # second option: bundle your app's main executables manually # see https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/from-source/native-binaries.html for more information > [...] # call through linuxdeploy > ./linuxdeploy-x86_64.AppImage --appdir AppDir --plugin ncurses --output appimage