Issues with Installing EPrints on Ubuntu 24.04

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N.B. It is assumed that you are installing the latest version of 3.4. Earlier versions may have issues not listed here.

Previous Issues

MySQL root user cannot be used 
This is now explained under EPrints' Getting Started instructions. As it is typical for most modern Linux operating systems.
libncurses5 
APT package dependency no longer exists in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, install libncurses6 instead. As both Ubuntu 24.04 and Ubuntu 26.04 only have libncurses6 the general instructions have been updated to use libncurses6.
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