<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10pt">Great thanks Madi - I'd used that approach for the two earlier errors when running this command but couldn't find a package relating to curses in my search for unintalled packages (probably due to the curses but being surrounded by other letters!)<br><br>Incedentally non-of the add-ons are working through the gui - I know this is a freqently reported problem to which the only guaranteed solution (after scouring the mailing list and trying solutions posted here http://planetflux.adamwilson.us/2012/02/installing-grass-extensions-on-ubuntu.html and http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.grass.user/43974) appears to be to compile from source.<br><br>...I wanted large file support anyway so I was just being lazy to only use the Ubuntu:GIS repository version :)<br><br>cheers!<br>Rebecca<br><div><span><br></span></div><div><br><blockquote
style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Margherita Di Leo <diregola@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Rebecca Bennett <rabennett@ymail.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> "grass-user@lists.osgeo.org" <grass-user@lists.osgeo.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, 31 October 2012, 10:46<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [GRASS-user] Unable to locate Curses Includes<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1837306400">Dear Rebecca,<br><br><div class="yiv1837306400gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 31,
2012 at 3:30 PM, Rebecca Bennett <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:rabennett@ymail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:rabennett@ymail.com">rabennett@ymail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="yiv1837306400gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-size:10pt;font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">Dear Grass Users,<br><br>Trying to compile 6.4.3 from source on Ubuntu 12.04 in order to get at the add-ons which are not working in my prepackaged install.<br>
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<br>Following these instructions (<a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu">http://grass.osgeo.org/wiki/Compile_and_Install_Ubuntu</a>) I check out the release_20121024_grass_6_4_3RC1 get as far as <pre>./configure \<br><br>but get the following error:<br>checking for long long int... yes<br>checking for W11... no<br>checking for X... no<br>checking whether to use Curses... yes<br>checking for curses.h... no<br>configure: error: *** Unable to locate curses includes.<br>
<br>Any suggestions / ideas welcome!<br></pre></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think you miss <span class="yiv1837306400Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;">libncurses5-dev.</span></div>
<div><span class="yiv1837306400Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse;"></span>In general, when you get an error like this, you can do the search yourself here: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://packages.ubuntu.com/">http://packages.ubuntu.com/</a> </div>
<div>You have to search "contents of packages" and specify your version/distribution.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div><br></div><div>madi</div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102);">Margherita DI LEO <br>
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